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hellhound

[hel-hound] / ˈhɛlˌhaʊnd /


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“I couldn’t sleep knowing that animals were just in those hellholes suffering,” said Dains, who now works at a shelter system in Sacramento.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

It turns out that his return to the White House was not a precondition for wrangling Gershkovich and others—including Paul Whelan, who was arrested in 2018—out of their Russian hellholes.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2024

"They’re going to be hellholes until people, the people most impacted by these crimes, the Black and the Brown people, realize this," he said.

From Fox News • Feb. 9, 2022

Everybody concerned with animal welfare knows that these are the hellholes of the natural world, really.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2020

Aguirre quoted from some of the letters to the council, including a portion of one by Peter Wood of Silver Spring, who called poultry markets “filthy and disease-ridden hellholes rife with suffering, misery and death.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2019




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