dog
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So much for the dog days of summer!
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
“At that time, I saw a gap that needed to be filled in the market,” Graves, who named the restaurant after his dog, told me.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
"We know everybody and his dog involved in the fight wants to do the fight in America. We don't," added Hearn.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
File it under the dog that didn’t bark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
I’m relieved Nate didn’t ask too many questions about why I wanted to steal my own dog, because that’d be the first question I would’ve asked.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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The coastguard said dogs could be attracted to the smell and might try to eat it - and if it was ingested it could cause a fatal reaction.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
After 26 years, they’ve watched three generations of dogs come and go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
I learned that he’s a proud father of two boys and a girl, and two dogs named Nipsey and Scrap, whom he affectionately calls his “babies.”
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
There are a lot of dogs, but if you look at enough, you will find some gems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
‘One of the dogs has found the trail!’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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While artificial-intelligence disruption fears have dogged the sector this year, investors seem to be coming around to the view that some software-as-a-service companies will hold up better than others in the AI era.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
However, his final season at the Etihad was dogged by poor results as City ended the 2024-25 season trophyless - just the second time that had happened since Guardiola joined the club in July 2016.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Japan's defence minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbours, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Russian-Japanese relations have long been dogged by the contested islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and seized by the Soviet Union in 1945.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
“You tried to act all down and then you dogged my cousin.”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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It took one look for people to start dogging the company out for its unreadability.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
One consequence: Xi has so far shrugged off signs that China needs to boost consumption to fight persistent deflation that is dogging the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Materne noted that skepticism of Microsoft’s AI strategy is another factor dogging the stock.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
Separate corruption investigations have targeted Sanchez's wife Begona Gomez and his younger brother David Sanchez, dogging his government for more than a year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
But then, halfway through the second half, he stopped dogging me.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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