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lariat

[lar-ee-uht] / ˈlær i ət /


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To begin to answer this question, Ares decided to investigate whether it was indeed the spliceosome that was making changes to the lariat introns to remove their tails.

From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024

The response, which included agents on horses, was broadly criticized after images of what appeared to be an agent using his lariat as a whip went viral.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Didawick: This reminds me of when Harry did “Oklahoma!” on Broadway and spent enormous amounts of time studying with Montie Montana how to do the lariat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

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

He tied the lariat rope around her neck and slipped off the bridle to let her graze.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

Free of lariats, but attended by watchful red drovers, they had been conducted to a strip of natural prairie at some distance from the rear of the camp where Cal had eaten his breakfast.

From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard


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