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hound

[hound] / haʊnd /




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The act of striving for more, like some frenzied truffle hound, is usually an attempt to override fear.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 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

This was not the first time in my uncle’s 30-year incarceration that we’ve had to hound the Florida Department of Corrections for answers about his well-being.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2025

He was just lying there with his long ears sticking straight up, looking at me as if he were the most surprised hound dog in the world.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Five Los Angeles County pools will open to the area’s dogs, pooches and hounds Saturday in a special event marking the end of the pool season.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

Trail hunting involves laying a trail using a rag soaked in animal scent which hounds can chase.

From BBC Dec. 21, 2025

The armies were packs of hounds, as it were, whose struggle with each other was to be commanded by Masters of Hounds, who took the matter as an exciting gamble.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

The Old Firm are playing catch-up while being hounded from below.

From BBC Feb. 28, 2026

Beyond that, the main point of similarity between Bessette and Diana is that the paparazzi hounded both – Diana to death, and Bessette to resentful exhaustion.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2026

Their laughter hounded me, but I refused to look back.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

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

After repeatedly hounding the manager of a small, 250-watt local radio station in Jackson for a job, Martindale was offered an audition less than two months after graduating high school in 1951.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2025

The inquest heard sections of the media had been "hounding" the presenter over the alleged assault of Lewis Burton, which she denied.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2025

Statements like: he was in South Africa only to fight, and not to engage in politics; therefore the press should stop hounding him for comments on apartheid.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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