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lariat

[lar-ee-uht] / ˈlær i ət /


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Recently, researchers at Brown University who were studying the locations of the joining sites in these lariats made an odd observation -- some introns were actually circular instead of lariat shaped.

From Science Daily May 10, 2024

A Reuters video showed a Border Patrol agent using what the news agency described as a lariat to whip at a Haitian migrant trying to enter the United States from Mexico.

From Seattle Times Sep. 20, 2021

A U.S. law enforcement officer on horseback wielded what appeared to be a lariat, whipping it close to the face of a man wading in the Rio Grande carrying a plastic bag of food.

From Reuters Sep. 20, 2021

At one point, he displayed his dissatisfaction with a floor design on the concourse — a rope encircling what appears to be a starburst — by sending the architects a lariat for guidance.

From New York Times Jan. 28, 2020

Presently a hulking, crazy-eyed man toting a stiff lariat appeared on the scene.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The collection has eight pieces total, including necklaces, hoops, studs, rings, bracelets and lariats, set in sterling silver and recycled 18-karat gold.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2024

Recently, researchers at Brown University who were studying the locations of the joining sites in these lariats made an odd observation -- some introns were actually circular instead of lariat shaped.

From Science Daily May 10, 2024

Amir’s jewelry company sells a line of lariats, each one featuring a word or phrase.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2017

But the heroes of the gathering are the poet lariats … er, laureates … like fifth-generation California cattleman John Dofflemyer who rides herd in the southern Sierra foothills.

From Reuters Jan. 31, 2015

Then they got their ropes to flying, and he was rattled, so that before you could count fifty he had as many as four lariats holding him.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George




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