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hound

[hound] / haʊnd /




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Stacey lives in Brooklyn with her husband and hound dog.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Among typical dog breeds, the great Anglo-French tricolor hound had the strongest signal at 4.7 to 5.7 percent, followed by the Shiloh shepherd at 2.7 percent.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2025

I look at the slender brown hound next me, grey whiskers poking out round his nose.

From BBC Sep. 27, 2025

Harley is a rescue hound, of indeterminate but clearly mixed breed, who is given to leaping in the air to snap at moths and making vain but enthusiastic attempts to catch lizards.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

Her actions weren’t those of a hunting hound.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

Stories of Greek and Roman gods in pursuit of pleasure and vengeance, aided by their hounds, are captured in Roman sculpture and paintings of the Renaissance and Baroque.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

She made the ferry journey over to England with a fellow Dutch breeder friend and seven pooches between them -- three of them Swedish Vallhunds and four other hounds.

From Barron's Mar. 5, 2026

Meanwhile, a runaway slave shows up out back, pursued by hounds, having heard that the Van Lew house is the place to run for help.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

Ms Portwin said Countryside Alliance wanted to find a way to "protect those jobs and homes for the hunt staff and protect our packs of hounds".

From BBC Dec. 26, 2025

“Dogs,” she said abruptly, remembering the slavering hounds on the way in.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

His Othello is hounded into a betrayal of his probity and hard-earned honor not just by the villainy of Iago but by the demons of his past.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Brunson, hounded mercilessly by the Spurs, didn't make a basket until the second quarter.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

It’s the only place now, she says, where she can return without being hounded.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

Swift does not appear in the video, instead compiling a "supercut" of scenes from the late actress's films, alongside archive clips and newsreels showing the star being hounded by paparazzi.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

Black skies, bitter winds, and lashing rains had hounded them all the way down the coast.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Her only sin was being right too early and too often — and the world never stopped hounding her for it.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Spitzer set the mold for the modern, powerful state attorney general by ruthlessly hounding Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The year before, billionaire Bill Ackman was invited for a friendly Q&A after hounding Harvard’s president out of office, and grievance-fueled media entrepreneur Bari Weiss presented a rallying plug for her Substack.

From Slate May 8, 2026

He’s been hounding Alijah about getting in the gym.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2026

“I’m impressed you got up here so quickly—and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin.”

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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