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pack animal

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Recent Examples of pack animal The long-distance trade is particularly impressive considering pre-Columbian North America’s only pack animal was the dog. — Adam Crepelle, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2025 All this was built with only basic tools, pack animals and human muscle – the latter supplied by some 9,000 laborers, roughly one-quarter of whom were recent immigrants from Ireland. — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025 But Hani has brought her along more as a companion than as a pack animal. — Literary Hub, 21 May 2025 There was as yet no donkey or other docile pack animal, no horse that wasn’t wild, no wheel and hence no wagon. — Literary Hub, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pack animal

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Two crazy ass years have gone by (fast af) and my travels have left me, at 28, with a little more wisdom, more guts and ALOT more shoes!

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2026
That show tackled Bitcoin, viral videos, NSA spying, and the goofy-ass names of 2010s tech startups without being hacky or hammy.

— Meredith Haggerty, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026

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In his incident report, Garner wrote that another officer activated a Taser's electrical arc to try to scare the donkey away, but HeeHaw continued approaching.

— Christopher Harris, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
These days, Bragg lives with Margaret nearby, in a red-cedar cabin on forty acres of pastureland grazed upon by two miniature donkeys.

— Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026

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Still, the show never gets beyond Russ being a showboating jackass and Chad being the low-IQ projection of a showboating jackass.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2025
Eminem In the first film, Joe Flaherty's character famously heckles Happy by repeatedly calling him a jackass right before he's set to putt.

— Lauren Huff Published, EW.com, 25 July 2025

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