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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for trotter
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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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The grant allowed Ride Above Disability to purchase a 9-year-old retired racehorse named Remi, who had raced at Los Alamitos Race Course.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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As for bags, the Script logo shopper was made in an even lighter, more relaxed shopping bag in an allover calfskin leather, suede or pony skin, while the Flap Bag reinterpreted a classic camera bag in smooth calfskin leather.—
Stephen Garner,
WWD,
3 Mar. 2025
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That’s the Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz, which in January 2025 celebrated its 40th anniversary, bringing together over 100 of the world’s top polo ponies and 25,000 spectators.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
26 Feb. 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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Street vendors hawked goods displayed on blankets spread on the sidewalk and sold steaming hot chestnuts from carts.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2025
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Jakins won but was accused of using a steel chestnut to defeat his opponents.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
16 Oct. 2024
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He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
19 Feb. 2025
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At nearly 160 pounds without its legs attached, this monster is too heavy for most wall mounts to support.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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The story of a wild mare Phantom and her baby Misty won the Newberry Award in 1948 and was made into a movie in 1961.—
Jessica Farthing,
Southern Living,
30 Dec. 2024
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This led to the lunar mare basalt — dark volcanic rock — wrinkling like the skin of a shriveling old apple.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 Feb. 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 12 Mar. 2025.
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