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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

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

“That the judge has this guy in his power and he can impose whatever hobbyhorse is important to him.”

From New York Times Aug. 23, 2021

He used the review space to give a hobbyhorse a ride.

From Washington Post Jul. 1, 2016

Once Rolfe had made him a hobbyhorse, and once Elfred the Dane had made him a boat, but it had not seemed so fine as this one.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli




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