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horseshoe

[hawrs-shoo, hawrsh-] / ˈhɔrsˌʃu, ˈhɔrʃ- /


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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

Similar respiratory structures are still found in aquatic chelicerates such as horseshoe crabs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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

It was a wild, lonesome place, down in a deep canyon that was bent in the shape of a horseshoe.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

How close is good enough for horseshoes, hand grenades and constitutional law under Bruen?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 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

There’s a gentle curve to the bridge at the front of the frames and what almost looks like horseshoes on the hinges that connect the temples to the lenses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

In addition to horse skulls and skeletons, the team found horseshoes.

From NewsForKids.net ● Feb. 19, 2024

It was his mission to upset, mash, and draw out the metal into the useful things that made society operate: nails, horseshoes, plows, knives, guns.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

Schauffele, who led overnight and for much of the final round, failed with his 60-footer, while US Open champion Clark's 17-footer horseshoed around the hole.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024

At the Masters, he horseshoed short putts to miss the cut while Tiger Woods ground out a limping resurgence on his surgically repaired leg.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023

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

There was a putt on the 16th hole that horseshoed out of the hole.

From Golf Digest ● May 15, 2012

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

Raffo was driving on Highway 530 to a horseshoeing job when the slide hit.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2019

“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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