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Recent Examples of trotter
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.
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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
There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
—Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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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
There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
—Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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There was also time for a long walk among the property, passing horses, goats, and ponies, swimming in the lagoon-style pool, and soaking in the onsen.Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2024
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Take a tethered hot air balloon ride, watch the ponies or duel a knight this weekend.Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
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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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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
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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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Highlights of the festive menu include Chicken liver parfait with plum chutney, traditional roast turkey with sprouts and chestnuts and all the trimmings, topped off with Delia smith’s Christmas pudding.Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Taub-Dix's dish includes hints of sweetness from the challah, plus cranberries, apricots, chestnuts and figs.Peter Burke, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2024
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Even as the misfortune mounts, the 13-2 Lions are road favorites against the 6-9 San Francisco 49ers, who have endured a harrowing injury streak of their own.Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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These horses ran wild on the barrier islands of the Lowcountry, frequently rounded up and used for dependable mounts and agricultural needs by local farmers.Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
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At a horse show named for diamonds, local resident Keara Holland and her American Saddlebred mare Uncommon Jewel were almost destined to come out on top.Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2024
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She was scheduled to have a showdown with Idiomatic, but last year’s champion mare suffered an injury and was retired.John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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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 15 Jan. 2025.
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