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Recent Examples of dogleg
That effort came on Pebble Beach’s par-5, dogleg-right 14th hole.
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Cam Inman, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
While most holes are pretty straight on, with a few obstacles to keep you thinking, there are also some wicked doglegs like the Fourth, where risk/reward is a true thing.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 27 June 2024
The tournament spans just three rounds, and the challenge hole, No. 14—a sloping dogleg par 5 with a Sunday setup that moves the tee box up 70 yards—became Thitikul’s playground.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The golf course features many doglegs and brings water into play throughout.
—Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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Cam Inman, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2025
While most holes are pretty straight on, with a few obstacles to keep you thinking, there are also some wicked doglegs like the Fourth, where risk/reward is a true thing.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 27 June 2024
The tournament spans just three rounds, and the challenge hole, No. 14—a sloping dogleg par 5 with a Sunday setup that moves the tee box up 70 yards—became Thitikul’s playground.
—Mike Dojc, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The golf course features many doglegs and brings water into play throughout.
—Dennis Esser, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dogleg
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But that advantage evaporated when Ocon retired on the grass lining the climb up the hill from the Tosa hairpin.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Retrace mythical Tour de France ascents like Col the Alpe d’Huez, with its 21 hairpin turns, and discover lesser known, yet equally demanding ascents like the Col d’Allos, a road where the average grade can reach 7.8 percent.—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
13 May 2025
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Fortunately, the view from the top still hits me like a surprise every time: the hills of Mexico to the south, the coastline to the west, the miles of undeveloped slopes and valleys to the north.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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According to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Communications, these slopes are dry, likely due to layers of fine dust suddenly sliding off steep terrain.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2025
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Even at a modest warm-up pace, Feeling the chassis turn-in to corners, modulating the brakes, and letting the mighty S52 pull me out of corner-exit with assured low-end torque was quite smile-inducing.—
Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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This street corner was forever altered on May 25, 2020, when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, suffocating and killing him.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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While Republicans have been largely in lockstep behind the administration’s actions, the latest messaging has become a turnoff.—
Al Weaver,
The Hill,
7 May 2025
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Even worse for him, Trump’s MAGA movement is seen as overtly racist and pro-Russia, two huge turnoffs for the majority of British voters.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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The NFTs can be accessed on a mobile device and users can watch them on a loop.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
24 May 2025
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Legendary Golf Writer Dan Jenkins nicknamed this three-hole stretch on Colonial the 'Horrible Horseshoe' for its immense difficulty and because its routing is shaped like a loop.—
Jack Milko,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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“Dogleg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dogleg. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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