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hobbyhorse

[hob-ee-hawrs] / ˈhɒb iˌhɔrs /
NOUN
rocking horse
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In 2017, the National Institutes of Health asked Hotez to meet with Kennedy to move him off the hobbyhorse of a vaccine-autism link.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025

That report builds off another Smith hobbyhorse: What we lack in elevators, we more than make up for in staircases.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2025

He has gone on to establish regular, silly characters - a romantic poet, a highwayman with a hobbyhorse, and a running story that sends up the allure of the archetypal aloof hero.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2022

The curtain falls on their son rocking on a hobbyhorse.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

His eyes grew wide, and then wider still at the sight of Beowulf sitting astride his wolf as naturally as a child riding a hobbyhorse.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood


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