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Then she hoists each dog onto a work table, attaching the animal loosely to a loop she cheerfully calls a noose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

If rates keep climbing, the fiscal noose might tighten.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

"It's been like a noose around our neck, ever since the route was chosen," says Ms Thacker, who has lived in her house for 38 years.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

An investigation found that the rope noose had been in the garage for many months and was not directed at Wallace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025

So she must capture the tree with the noose of her rope and use it to get across the wide expanse of vertical rock.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Lunday said the reports of labeling swastikas and nooses as divisive were “categorically false.”

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2025

In it, singer Yawar Abdal imagines a Kashmir where people, blindfolded and with nooses around their necks, are liberated amid chants of “All shall be free.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2022

Adding to the turmoil is disagreement about even some of the most basic facts of the case, like how many nooses have been found.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

Critics allege the industry has serious safety problems, with dangers posed by nooses, hair dryers and poor handling by groomers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021

Snares or nooses are also made of sinews to take lesser animals, such as hares and white partridges, which are very numerous.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

You would see them trundle up and down Spinner's Walk trailing wires and lights, their gaze rolling towards the hospital gates on Clarence Road, their necks noosed by camera straps.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2014

You would see them trundle up and down Spinner’s Walk trailing wires and lights, their gaze rolling toward the hospital gates on Clarence Road, their necks noosed by camera straps.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014

The astonished fishermen noosed the two animals, hauled them aboard, took them ashore.

From Time Magazine Archive

I willed them to move, but my conscience noosed around my ankles and pulled down hard.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

He thought that he could collect some water if he let down his chombu with the string that he always carried noosed to the neck of it.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote

Mitchum is snagging coconuts and noosing turtles; Deborah is roasting breadfruit and thatching a sail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also he had a horrid habit of noosing moccasins for sport; and it would have been easy for him to introduce one to me while I slept.

From Police!!! by Henry Hutt

These consisted of long thongs of reindeer-skin, and also hempen cords of the manufacture of civilized men, for noosing the reins, and of bowls, kits, &c., to receive the milk.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

Young Marc-Antonio Grilli, the cleverest lad in the parish at noosing any wild animal, is our patron of the feast.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

He said, and noosing a strong galley-rope To an huge column, led the cord around The spacious dome, suspended so aloft 540 That none with quiv’ring feet might reach the floor.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper