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Recent Examples of foal
Budweiser’s iconic Clydesdales are back in this Super Bowl spot which shows a foal determined to help with a delivery despite its youth.
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
Do kids learning English as a second language know that a foal is a baby horse?
—Kelly Stuart, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Ridley tries to warn her dad that what’s going on isn’t right, and Elliot finally realizes it late in the game, when the entitled and very bro-y Shepard Leopold (Will Poulter) uses Ridley and the dead foal as bait to capture the other unicorns.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
When people notice the hundreds of horse deaths (specifically, 369 racehorse deaths at Maryland tracks since 2014), $400 million (including taxpayer subsidies) funneled to decrepit tracks or perhaps the decreasing attendance, allowances, starts, purses, and foal crop?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
Do kids learning English as a second language know that a foal is a baby horse?
—Kelly Stuart, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Ridley tries to warn her dad that what’s going on isn’t right, and Elliot finally realizes it late in the game, when the entitled and very bro-y Shepard Leopold (Will Poulter) uses Ridley and the dead foal as bait to capture the other unicorns.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
When people notice the hundreds of horse deaths (specifically, 369 racehorse deaths at Maryland tracks since 2014), $400 million (including taxpayer subsidies) funneled to decrepit tracks or perhaps the decreasing attendance, allowances, starts, purses, and foal crop?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foal
Noun
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Photos show the exhausted mare nearly buried in the mud as rescuers tried to fasten the rope around her.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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The beautiful horses are the main attraction at the Breeders’ Cup, from the future stars on Friday as juveniles, to the fantastic fillies, magnificent mares and classic colts that produce a lifetime of enjoyment for their connections and fans.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes,
29 Oct. 2024
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Trainer Michael McCarthy saddled the 3-year-old colt to a masterful win Saturday in 1 minute, 55.47 seconds.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
17 May 2025
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Getty Images Notably absent from the race, however, was Sovereignty, the 3-year-old colt who won the Kentucky Derby.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 May 2025
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While left alone for an hour, the younger sibling ignored all warnings and put Willow in the stallion's paddock.—
Lydia Patrick,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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But even we weren’t prepared for the moment when Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) discovers that her handsome new husband, Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), is a stallion.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Dec. 2024
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His team consisted of the best possible combination—a mare and her foal, now a four-year-old gelding.—
Louise Erdrich,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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In this year's Derby, Hernandez will be riding Burnham Square, the bay gelding who won last month's Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky and Florida's Holy Bull Stakes in February and was given 12-1 odds in the morning line.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
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The horse race is for 3-year-old fillies on Friday, a prelude to the Preakness.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
17 May 2025
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The favorite in this year’s field is Good Cheer, an undefeated filly going for her seventh win in Friday’s Grade 1 gallop.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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“Foal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foal. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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