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hound

[haund] / haʊnd /




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After trawling through dozens of applications, the hunt is over: an Australian animal welfare group has found a successor to a hero hound credited with saving more than 100 koalas from fires.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

On the day the BBC joined the team, 31 smooth hound sharks were caught, measured and weighed and 11 were big enough to be tagged.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Still, some complained Bycel was a publicity hound, and he made powerful enemies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

I am an avowed condiment hound, especially when two sauces are doing different jobs.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

I put my arms around my old hound and said, “It’s not your fault the monkeys are gone. It’s not my fault either. I guess we weren’t supposed to catch them.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Trail hunting was introduced after the Hunting Act 2004 as an alternative to hounds chasing foxes and involves using an animal-scented rag.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

From paw prints in Mesopotamian pavement to hunting hounds in Renaissance sculpture, dogs have long featured in art.

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

With a major role in Josh Safdie’s madcap ping-pong riot, “Marty Supreme,” Paltrow is rounding out the year with a bang, earning her last laugh against gossip hounds and Goop critics.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

“The hounds did not find Bertha. I did—with a bit of help from the wolf children. So the ostrich is still mine, Ashton. Finders keepers, that’s what you said.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

“She was just hounded and just critiqued with terrible jokes,” Perry said, but she didn’t back down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 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

For performing this service, Amamiya was hounded off the Internet.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

I let a minute or two pass so that she wouldn’t feel hounded, then went and sat next to her.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

It marked the start of a reckoning for the British tabloid media, which was blamed for hounding her after the car in which she was a passenger was chased by paparazzi before crashing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

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

Etzebeth continued to loom large over Van Poortvliet, hounding the Leicester nine and disrupting England's plans to exit their own territory.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024

That was the first and last time Kaori had tried to teach Gen how to tell time, but she never stopped hounding her about one of life’s most important lessons: be punctual.

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly


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