horseshoe
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I can already imagine it: point your phone at a package of ground beef and wait while a tiny animated horseshoe spins on the screen.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Bill Hays—taut, with a neatly trimmed gray horseshoe hairline—sat behind the counter and immediately clocked me as a journalist, not some casual shopper.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
There’s a friendship bracelet from a volunteer trip to Haiti, a horseshoe found on a Grand Canyon trail and antique lace from a market in Bruges, Belgium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
The 2.25-mile electric train system is designed to help reduce airport congestion by connecting terminals, parking lots and passenger pickup and drop-off areas — ferrying riders over the airport’s notorious horseshoe loop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
The Varangian flicked his sword at Kin, and the horseshoe spun back around, like they were tethered to rope that Sigurd had caught on his sword.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
One invented the mechanical reaper, another a machine for the mass production of horseshoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Beyoncé's rodeo rumbled into London, bringing with it every country cliché you could think of - cowboy hats, horseshoes, tassels and even a gold mechanical bull.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025
At Alisal Ranch in Solvang, kids can hang out at the bar and paint horseshoes or take a riding lesson.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.
From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024
Major Major often paid strict attention to the horseshoes falling softly against the earth or riding down around the small steel pegs in the ground.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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But will it be as intimidating as the cauldron created by the almost 5,000-seat stand that horseshoed the first tee at Rome in 2023?
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
In both cases, he has accidentally horseshoed himself into spectacularly ill-informed opinions that nonetheless capture something of the contemporary zeitgeist.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
A second story in the Beta building — business staffers on one side, engineers on the other — is horseshoed around a hangar beneath, where multiple aircraft sit in various stages of tinkering.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2022
The three-times European Ryder Cup member missed the chance for a “mulligan” — golf terminology for a free shot — when his short bogey putt horseshoed around the hole and hit his foot.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2019
Unfortunately for the 23-year-old from Forest, Va., his ball caught the left lip and horseshoed out, leaving the crowd stunned at the shockingly outcome.
From Golf Digest ● May 28, 2019
She was driving on Highway 530, headed to a horseshoeing appointment, when the slide hit.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024
She sent Benedict Cumberbatch — who stars as Phil, a vicious, hypermasculine rancher — to Montana as well, to learn roping, riding, horseshoeing, whittling, banjo and bull-calf castration.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
That’s out of this world, but Casey passes up the opportunity to salvage the half, his putt horseshoeing out.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2021
“There is being in running shape and there is being in horseshoeing shape,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015
Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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