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paddock

[pad-uhk] / ˈpæd ək /
NOUN
corral
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NOUN
racetrack
Synonyms


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Carlyle invites existing and potential clients to daylong gatherings that include meeting the drivers and a tour of the F1 garage and paddock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It's fair to say this is causing some disquiet in the paddock, even if few - if any - are voicing it publicly.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Exploiting a scheduling quirk—Singapore’s 8 p.m. race typically follows a slate of afternoon starts in Europe—the entire paddock just lives in an alternate, nocturnal universe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

The grasses in the new paddock were thigh-high and lush, and the cattle plainly couldn’t wait to get at them.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Not bad for a venue that has occupied its current site since 1853, land that was once used for police-force horse paddocks and is a short, happy walk from downtown Melbourne.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Hence, these findings should be tested using experimental burns of crops in paddocks.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

The dogs will patrol lambing paddocks, instead of trying to protect entire herds.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

People always need food—many tried to turn to farming, and in the shattered suburbs, people grew their lawns into paddocks, chicken yards, and plots.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

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

Wild and shy, as paddocked merinos always are, these had withdrawn to the quietest places they could find, and were there making the best of a bad job.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

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

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

From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert

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

From The Lost Valley by James Morgan Walsh


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