mongrel
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The mongrel called Mona escaped from its pet carrier on the way to a plane, running off across the runway in Buenos Aires, pursued by three vans.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
Baxter and her producer, Edward Barnes decided not to inform the viewers but instead substituted a sad-looking mongrel they discovered in a south London pet shop.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
Soviet scientists picked Laika, a stray mongrel found on the cold streets of Moscow.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022
“Like many of us, I’m a mongrel, a hybrid, made up of many things,” she writes in the title essay.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020
He was—he is—a mongrel, but mostly setter, and he loved to hunt.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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