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[hound] / haʊnd /




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"Sophie thought she'd read the Daily Mail one day and the first comment was: 'Why does she look like an Afghan hound?'"

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

It’s like telling me you beat your basset hound in tennis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

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

The dog, Apollo, is a pickup truck of a hound, and Iris barely has any space for him in her cramped New York City apartment.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

Oh, how I loved that old hound dog of mine.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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