hound
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Still, some complained Bycel was a publicity hound, and he made powerful enemies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
Fans going to hound out Peter Lawwell again?
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
And I pictured him running down that pathway in the valley with his own hound of heaven at his heels.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
No revolutionary, Wood writes, “defended with more vehemence common ordinary people against the aristocracy—‘against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked like cattle, and fed and cloathed like swine and hounds.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
Through the portcullis there came a sorrowful howling to bear out Sir Grummore’s statement, as it had been thirty couple of hounds baying the moon.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He was referring to what he saw as his daughter being "hounded" at one of his properties by Sky News.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
For performing this service, Amamiya was hounded off the Internet.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
The press hounded her for a statement, but she refused to give one.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Some people on social media blamed the British press for hounding him; others blamed the academic institutions for not having done their vetting properly years ago to save Arday from the public humiliation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
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
Plus, hounding bears in the woods would have no impact on the bears knocking over neighborhood trash cans and sneaking into ice cream stores.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
As “Asta’s son,” I was oft the butt of jests, jibes, and relentless hounding.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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