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Recent Examples of housebroken
One housebroken joey would watch television in their living room.
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Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
The country’s leading art educator was the mediocre German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, who promulgated a sort of housebroken neoclassicism.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
Dogs supposedly trained to detect and respond to potentially life-threatening blood sugar levels in people with diabetes were, in reality, often untrained, un-housebroken puppies with hefty pricetags—currently set at $25,000.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
Sherman, discarded by the Seahawks, arrives with bad-puppy baggage — old, banged-up, a rep for being not quite housebroken.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
The country’s leading art educator was the mediocre German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, who promulgated a sort of housebroken neoclassicism.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
Dogs supposedly trained to detect and respond to potentially life-threatening blood sugar levels in people with diabetes were, in reality, often untrained, un-housebroken puppies with hefty pricetags—currently set at $25,000.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
Sherman, discarded by the Seahawks, arrives with bad-puppy baggage — old, banged-up, a rep for being not quite housebroken.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housebroken
Adjective
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In the wild, rapid growth, a docile temperament and fast egg-laying are not traits that would serve chickens well in the slightest.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Bullmastiffs are docile at home and fearless at work.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Following Reed's death, rumors spread online that he had been found with a range of injuries such as broken limbs that could indicate an assault.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The intensive care doctor who treated the boy told detectives the child arrived at the hospital in cardiac arrest, with a traumatic brain injury, including bleeding on the brain, bleeding of the eyes and a broken left leg, the report states.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Housebroken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housebroken. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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