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But it makes little sense to think a law intended to bridle Wall Street also opened the gates to sports betting, Zaring said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Castro is accused of pulling on the bridle of one horse and grabbing the reins of another as mounted deputies moved toward a crowd of protesters to enforce dispersal orders on June 14.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

It includes more than 800 items, including two cauldrons or vessels, horse harness, bridle bits, ceremonial spears and 28 iron tyres, believed to have been buried about 2,000 years ago.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2023

Only this bridle was made out of flowers—daisies, to be specific.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

She refers to Isaac as “Latin-X,” to his disgust, and bridles when Alan casually complains that a student objected when he said a movie was “lame.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

The handlers on the ground let go of the bridles and the cows suddenly shoot forward.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

American freedom is not absolute; no American is free from the Constitution’s bridles.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

For two saddles, a handful of bridles, and two sacks of oats, he became for all intents and purposes the property of Freddie Johnson.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Blanche bridled at the suggestion, calling it “the most false statement I have ever heard in my life.”

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

About talks with Tata: Welsh government have bridled at suggestions that they refused to take part.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024

And he bridled when he was called in for a follow-up interview that he said involved the same questions.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

Charles thought she looked like a little old woman, “but with her heightened colour, sparkling eyes & bridled smiles, she looked, as I thought, quite charming.”

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Agency for International Development, some African governments are bridling at the conditions he has set for resuming funding to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

In her autobiography, Mrs. Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

In her autobiography, Dede Robertson recalled bridling at staying at home and her husband’s refusal to help around the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

Channeling both Henry James and Edith Wharton, this section focuses on a man of privilege bridling against the conventions of his era in order to feel real love, perhaps to his peril.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022

Yossarian demanded, rising up slowly on one elbow with bridling hostility.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller