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Recent Examples of mule
For some extra height and to elongate the look of my legs, the Riva mules were the perfect shoe.
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Madeline Fass, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Some mail carriers even still use mules or horses to deliver to Supai, Arizona, a remote Havasupai tribal village in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, or float planes to serve fishing villages off the Alaskan coast.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Near the big red barn and stables, toddlers were perched on a fence, petting mules.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2025
Feminine slides, mules and wedges, especially in patent or velvet, felt fresh.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
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Madeline Fass, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Some mail carriers even still use mules or horses to deliver to Supai, Arizona, a remote Havasupai tribal village in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, or float planes to serve fishing villages off the Alaskan coast.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
Near the big red barn and stables, toddlers were perched on a fence, petting mules.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2025
Feminine slides, mules and wedges, especially in patent or velvet, felt fresh.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mule
Noun
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Be assertive if a coyote nears, N.C. wildlife officers advise.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Apr. 2025
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After Tommy has witnessed a murder, a coyote stops and stares at him, reflecting his internal turmoil.—
Fred Topel,
Deadline,
5 Apr. 2025
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The only other research dog breeder according to current USDA inventories is Oak Hill Genetics based in Franklin County in Illinois, which housed about 800 mongrel hound dogs in July.—
ByMeredith Wadman,
science.org,
28 Oct. 2024
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To continue playing the songs without that mongrel soul is just cash register stuff.—
Matt Thompson,
SPIN,
9 Jan. 2024
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As if to punctuate his asinine decision, Marin makes a braying donkey noise.—
Adam Tschorn,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Zen Donkey farm in Lone Jack, Missouri, currently has five donkeys (one of the older donkeys passed away this year) and two horses.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2025
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The same grass/plastic hybrid, but this time grown at a turf farm 200 miles north of London and then rolled into 720 pieces of pitch, loaded onto lorries and driven south.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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In New York, there are 172,000 electric vehicles and 114,000 hybrids on the road, according to data from Atlas Public Policy.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
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Here are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make.—
Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
2 May 2024
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Loughlin, who has posted consistent results all summer racing a 10-year-old jenny named Mary Margaret, was fortunate to have Hal Walter, a seven-time pack burro racing world champion, take her under his wing and share plenty of the tricks of the trade through the years.—
Brian Metzler,
Outside Online,
16 Aug. 2022
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HMAs are designated areas where the BLM tries to manage a sustainable number of horses and burros while keeping rangelands healthy for other uses, like recreation and grazing.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
2 Apr. 2025
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In other words, humans will tire out long before the burro.—
Heather Mundt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 June 2024
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Zoom in: High school junior Jett Hale, from Miami, Texas, fetched the reserve record with his steer, Mike, a stunning charolais crossbreed.—
Jay R. Jordan,
Axios,
24 Mar. 2025
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By selecting various friends in her wanderings, Sophie’s mom had spawned not just one sort of crossbreed, but several in that same litter.—
Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Feb. 2025
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Season eight’s unapologetic iconoclast, Acid Betty, returns to the competition to kick ass and take names.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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Season 8’s unapologetic iconoclast Acid Betty returns to the competition to kick ass and take names.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Mule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mule. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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