mustang

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Recent Examples of mustang The American Eagle campaign, its presentation of Americana as a zombie slop of mustangs, denim, and good genes, is lowest-common-denominator stuff. Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025 In the small town of Jay Em, Wyoming, a nonprofit called Operation Remount Corporation is offering a form of equine therapy that serves not only veterans and first responders, but also the mustangs—many of which come from traumatic backgrounds. Kennedy Hayes, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2025 Wild horses, often called mustangs, are not native to the West and are generally descendants of horses that were released by or escaped from Spanish explorers, ranchers, Native Americans and others. Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025 Consider taking a hike into the area, and be on the lookout for mustangs gathered around watering holes. Lynn O'Rourke Hayes, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mustang
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mustang
Noun
  • Emily gets up on the bar to dance with one of the Magic Mikes at the booth, quickly straddling him to ride him like a bucking bronco.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Of course, a rearing bronco with deep orange eyes is included in the design for these Broncos.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It was usually tied up in a haphazard pony.
    Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Back in the day, the first-gen MX-5 carried the same price tag as a V8 pony car.
    Byron Hurd, The Drive, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Wohlfeil’s decision noted that between the 2024 and 2025 rodeos, the rodeo management team adjusted the rules to not permit the use of electric prods — which had drawn criticism — and also to bar the use of mares known to be pregnant.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The 6-year-old allowance-level mare Angelic Appeal was euthanized after being injured in a race on the Santa Anita turf course on Saturday, and the maiden 4-year-old colt Cornhuskerchris was euthanized after being injured in training on the Santa Anita training track on Sunday.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Assistant trainer Dennis O’Neill purchased the horse in 2015 at a price of $400,000 before stallion Uncle Mo became the nation’s leading first-crop sire.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Jan. 2026
  • There’s no reason to abandon your star stallion just before the big race.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Whether Baffert has another Derby winner in Plutarch won’t be known for 12 weeks, but the colt certainly has the bloodlines.
    Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • See what Pletcher had to say about the colt.
    Stephanie Stremplewski, Louisville Courier Journal, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Cole, a Belgian gelding who’s about 12 years old, calmly stood tied to a rope in the barn on the Kuehls’ property as visitors walked up to him and rubbed above his nose.
    Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Damazio, a claiming-level 7-year-old gelding, was injured and threw jockey Adrian Escobedo in the second race last Sunday.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The ad follows a Clydesdale foal that forms a friendship with a young bird.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the ad, marking the 48th Super Bowl commercial appearance by Budweiser Clydesdales, a down-on-its-luck eaglet befriends a Clydesdale foal.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Sunday finale Brown is seeking his seventh Matriarch win in nine years Sunday in the one-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Mustang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mustang. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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