lariat

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This appearance has led to them being named "lariat introns."

From Science Daily • May 10, 2024

A Reuters video showed a Border Patrol agent using what the news agency described as a lariat to whip at a Haitian migrant trying to enter the United States from Mexico.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021

A U.S. law enforcement officer on horseback wielded what appeared to be a lariat, whipping it close to the face of a man wading in the Rio Grande carrying a plastic bag of food.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2021

M. was dressed unremarkably, in jeans and a T-shirt, with a necklace on a long leather lariat — an upgraded version of what he might have worn in class.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

Presently a hulking, crazy-eyed man toting a stiff lariat appeared on the scene.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols