racehorse

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Recent Examples of racehorse The racehorse owners seek at least $3 million dollars in compensation, as well as additional compensation for punitive damages. Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024 One other factor is that there will likely be fewer deaths because the foal crop is in serious decline, meaning fewer racehorses. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024 Among this group of donors are CEOs, lawyers and racehorse owners. Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024 These pastures raise many of the state’s famous Kentucky Derby racehorses. Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for racehorse 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for racehorse
Noun
  • This change enabled a new fictional genre to develop: horse-girl fiction, which idealized stories about girls and their ponies.
    Rebecca Scofield / Made by History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
  • See the mini pony, Dolly dress-up station, book drive and more.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • More than 1 million trotters will participate in those races.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The news comes hot on the trotters of social media sensation Moo Deng at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand earlier this year.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.
    Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
Noun
  • As frustration mounts, a once-fringe idea regains traction: secession.
    Dr. Alex Gold, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The motorized mount features a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that allows for an impressive 10 hours of uninterrupted stargazing.
    Gemma Lavender, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Around her are two other mares with their foals snuggling up to them.
    James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 June 2024
  • Horse racing’s biggest star closes from dead last, but Blame holds off the 6-year-old mare and wins the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic under the lights Churchill Downs.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The clip featured the 32-time Grammy winner straddling a white stallion, swinging a large American flag in slow motion as a Western trumpet theme played over the sound of a stampede.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Black-and-white photographic evidence shows a different stallion many decades ago.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, private livery tours, drive-yourself carriages and saddle horses will still be available but will have alternate routes to avoid the Arch Rock.
    Jasmin Barmore, Detroit Free Press, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The Devil was a saddle horse ridden by Maj.
    Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021

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“Racehorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racehorse. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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