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paddock

[pad-uhk] / ˈpæd ək /
NOUN
corral
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NOUN
racetrack
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"I don't think we're allowed enough paddock passes in F1 to bring them all in," he says.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

The Vienna native had already made a fortune as a tech investor before he set foot on a Formula One paddock.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

The media is housed in a casino hotel, about a 10-minute walk away, through a tunnel and across a car park, although there is a small workspace in the paddock as well.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

In Miami this weekend, for example, the media centre is spread over a number of rooms several stories above the paddock, which is on the NFL pitch in the Hard Rock Stadium.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

And Quintus Sertorius would not stay in his stall, so after school Joseph and I took him out to the paddock to let him walk around.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt

A big harvest means large amounts of grain spilt in the paddocks during the processing of crops, leading to an easily accessible and much-loved food source for mice.

From BBC May 30, 2026

The property is miles from the highway, accessible on two-lane roads lined by horse paddocks, white fences and canopies of gnarled live oaks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2024

Crops with higher flammability could be embedded among other paddocks planted with low-flammability crops.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2023

The ducks follow a daily routine: In the morning, they go to the vineyards to prevent crop damage, and in the evening they return to their paddocks to peck at pellets of nutritious bird food.

From Reuters Jan. 16, 2023

I kept on walking, passing paddocks filled with horses, cows, and shaggy-furred cattle that I realized must be buffalos.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary, and Phidias, had he worked in wax, only a more inspired Mrs. Jarley.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick

We had a beautiful, still morning for our ride, and reached the station—a shed standing out on the plain—in time to see our horses safely paddocked before the train started for Christchurch.

From Station Life in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker

Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

I've got the car paddocked down near the reserve.

From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh

A sound like "Goood!" came from the paddocked bull.

From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert




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