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[shoo] / ʃu /


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Jackson flags this exact relationship in her dissent, as the court’s new ruling Monday “lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs.”

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

In the era of NIL, she got an agent, signed a shoe deal, transferred to Sierra Canyon and became the No. 1 player in the country before signing with USC and becoming a national figure.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

Similar mash-ups and shoe collaborations have come and gone.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

"Everyone is going faster than they used to be because the shoe technology is so much better," University of Exeter professor Andrew Jones told BBC Sport.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

I’m smacking the heel of my shoe against the leg of my chair so hard I’ll probably have a bruise.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods tumbled toward their worst day in three years on Tuesday, as the sporting-goods retailer’s bleak earnings report revealed that people needed deeper discounts to buy athletic shoes and clothes.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

But rather than slash prices, the WSJ’s Jennifer Williams reports, the company opted to cut back on discounts, pull some products from shelves and sell fewer shoes to wholesalers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

“I looked down, he was kicking dirt on my shoes, all that,” Heyward said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

The mostly middle-aged crowd featured men in boat shoes and women with jewelry at an outdoor space where boats docked near the restaurant.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

Then, to the small child sitting in my lap, Aunt Melissa asks, “Lily, darling, can you put on your shoes? I need to drop you off at Minnie’s before work.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

A typical stanza: Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a thorn in the flesh to everybody he came across; he was like grit in the porridge, like a fly in the eye, like a stone in the shoon.

From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by W.H.D. Rouse

At last, however, I hung my sword, dusted the hair-powder from frill and ruffle, buckled shoon and knees, and shook out the long soft lace over my cuffs.

From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I hadna pu'd a flower but ane, When by there came a gallant hende, Wi' high-coll'd hose and laigh-coll'd shoon, And he seem'd to be sum kingis son.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

"But where will I get a pretty little boy, That will win hose and shoon; That will go quickly to Strawberry Castle, And bid my lord come doun?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.

From Slate Mar. 14, 2026

Dsquared2 also presented for autumn-winter 2026-27 an army of holidaymakers shod in provocative footwear.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

But when he faces down a more traditionally shod and tailored adversary, Boy Kavalier unleashes his dogs as negotiating weapons.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2025

“Try finding a suitable space in a Range Rover or Jeep Wagoneer for an 8-inch by 22-inch rim shod with a cross-country tire,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2023

He was always brushed, bathed, oiled, and shod.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Only 18 people shoed up for a debate we hosted, and we had received only seven letters.

From Washington Times Sep. 23, 2020

“You got up in the morning, you tended to your horses, you cleaned the hooves out, shoed them and fed them,” Elliott said.

From Washington Times Jul. 10, 2016

She hates heels, feels like a shoed horse in them.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2012

John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Smiths straightened swords, knocked dents from breastplates, and shoed destriers and pack mules alike.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley

But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey

Discuss shoeing and hoof care options with a farrier.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

He began shoeing horses for television and film westerns, and gradually took nonspeaking roles on horseback.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2020

“I think they got greedy and sloppy. It defies logic to improve every horse you get. You can change shoeing equipment, surface, vitamins, but you can’t improve every horse.”

From Washington Post Mar. 17, 2020

Cherry’s curiosity about people’s lives produced finely observed pictures of immigrants, street vendors, bocce players, farriers shoeing Central Park carriage horses, construction workers, fruit auctioneers and children watching in amazement as an airplane flew overhead.

From Seattle Times Mar. 15, 2019

Exception 2.—Words ending in oe retain the e to preserve the sound of the root: as, shoe + ing = shoeing; hoe + ing = hoeing.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton




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