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Recent Examples of trotter
The steaming pigeon and trotter pie at St. John comes to mind, as does a haunch of venison, served on lush spring greens, at the aforementioned Palmerston.
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Will Hawkes, Saveur, 29 May 2024
My mom always emphasized the role of food: some dishes, like pork trotters with peanuts or ginger chicken drenched in sesame oil, are said to repair the uterus.
—Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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Will Hawkes, Saveur, 29 May 2024
My mom always emphasized the role of food: some dishes, like pork trotters with peanuts or ginger chicken drenched in sesame oil, are said to repair the uterus.
—Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
For this reason, married Taiwanese daughters return home on leap day to cook pig trotter noodles, a dish made with pig's feet, for their parents, which is thought to bring them good fortune and health.
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trotter
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The prize is named after the King's beloved grandmother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who avidly followed horse racing and memorably passed the hobby along to her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, who bred, owned and oversaw many racehorses during her lifetime.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Fun fact: The Vanderbilt family once owned Sagamore Farm, and Plank commissioned a mural of the family's racehorse, Native Dancer, in the home.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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Material play was also in focus, with pony hair leather fashioned in a Bambi print.—
Lily Templeton,
WWD,
12 Mar. 2025
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The park’s wild ponies were originally brought here in the 1970s to control forest growth.—
Casey Barber,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2025
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Going to celebrate the Passover, Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.—
Lynne Silva-Breen,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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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
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 July 2024
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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
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Light and enticing mid palate with flavors of maple syrup, chestnuts, mint and jerky.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Street vendors hawked goods displayed on blankets spread on the sidewalk and sold steaming hot chestnuts from carts.—
James Barron,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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As public pressure mounts, Khalil’s fate remains uncertain.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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The club’s hierarchy will now hope the Champions League can provide the fans with some silverware this season as pressure mounts on Arteta’s shoulders.—
Ben Church,
CNN,
10 Mar. 2025
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Premarin, approved by the F.D.A. in 1942 to treat menopausal symptoms, soon dominated the market, its innocuous-seeming name barely disguising its primary ingredient, pregnant mares’ urine.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Each of the victories during the mare’s winning streak have been close calls, none of them by more than a length.—
Clark Spencer,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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The trackers plugged in data on a herd of roan antelope, then a single male cheetah.—
ByDimitri Selibas,
science.org,
13 June 2024
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Only eight gray or roan horses have ever won the first leg of the Triple Crown.—
Alexis Cubit,
The Courier-Journal,
2 May 2023
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“Trotter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trotter. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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