lariat
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This appearance has led to them being named "lariat introns."
From Science Daily ● May 10, 2024
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
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
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
Sharp jerks of the lariats called the ponies from their feeding and they followed the pulling.
From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard
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