horseshoe
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"We're constantly afraid," she told AFP outside her front door, above which hung a horseshoe symbolising good luck.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The diplomats, Sherman explained, sat in a horseshoe formation and spoke one by one.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
It represents a transitional form, linking earlier Cambrian arthropods that seem to lack chelicera with later horseshoe crab-like species known as synziphosurines.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
We understand the appeal of the horseshoe, but our research suggests that the real story is more complicated in two important regards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Once, I started with terror at a ratcheting upon my foot, to find a horseshoe crab trundling past in search of a pool, its saber-tail and lobed armor grotesque in the extreme.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
Anya took the rubles and slipped them into her pocket, the weight there somehow even heavier than the horseshoes from earlier.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Towering stands horseshoed around the opener at Marco Simone Country Club, creating a cauldron that the American players seemed to struggle with, and they did not win that hole in the opening 12 matches.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
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
While Deborah was pregnant we lived in South Carolina so that I could go to horseshoeing school and then back to Atlanta for the birth.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2013
Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
