hare
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The buxom stall-owner lifts a furry, giant hare, its dead eyes glazed, as a primly dressed female customer offers coins in payment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Welsh forces recently formed Operation Galileo Cymru, working with farming unions and other agencies to share intelligence and coordinate action on hare coursing and associated rural crimes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Wiltshire farmer David Lemon showed us his 3,000-acre farm, where hare coursers have previously torn up the fields with miles of tyre tracks.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Forbes calls that “the tortoise and hare approach.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
“No, I’ll deal with the hare another time. Right now I want you all here in case there’s a chance of trapping this one,” Cluny murmured.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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We began investigating this underworld for the BBC Radio 4 podcast Dead Rabbit after the bodies of dead hares and other animals were mysteriously dumped in two picturesque Hampshire villages in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
In 2024, he was working in deer management on an estate where he suspects the dead hares had been killed.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
As Apple plays the tortoise role—slow and steady wins the race—the sprint between the two hares is what’s captivating investors.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
The hares on the down, stupid and torpid with cold, were resigned to sinking further and further into the freezing heart of snow and silence.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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But on Sunday there were clear skies over Shropshire and so he "hared up the Long Mynd", a moorland forming part of the Shropshire Hills at Church Stretton.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2023
But the tap down bounced kindly for Kelleher who hared to the tryline.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2021
He picked himself up and hared off in pursuit of Carapaz, bashing on his displaced left-brake lever as he descended, trying to hammer it back straight on his handlebars.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2020
A loose square pass from Otamendi just inside his own half went to Vardy, who rode a couple of tackles and hared straight towards the penalty area as the last man Laporte backpedalled.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2018
Sperretooul Sircles is held nitely & 4 or 5 long hared fellers has settled here and gone into the Sperret biznis excloosively.
From The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward
Whether haring down a treacherous Tour de France descent, or bunny hopping up sandy terrain, multi-eventer Pidcock is filling the void left by Britain's millennial cycling superstars.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
Those jurors will be taken to Carroll County from that county for the trial, which is scheduled for March but unlikely to occur before the fall, Gull said at the haring.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
In the previous round, the Reds won 2-0 away at Internazionale, only for the Italian champions to come haring back at them at Anfield.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2022
A final defender comes haring across, all pumping thighs and straining arms.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2022
"The gods help this potboy if he's sent me off haring after shadows."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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