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Recent Examples of working dogThese puppies, believed to be a collie-working dog crossbreed, were left in the park, posing a threat to the local wildlife.—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025 Maple’s new role demonstrates how specialized detection skills can be adapted to protect critical pollinators, and how a working dog’s career can take a second life, for the benefit of both bees and beekeepers.—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2025 This is how many working dogs think in and out of their respected fields.—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025 The course is taught only three times a year with ten military working dog teams.—Escher Walcott, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for working dog
More than 100 puppies and 150 volunteers descended on Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport on April 19 for an annual guide dog training program.
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Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
Michelle Barlak, a Seeing Eye spokesperson, pointed to a growing concern in the guide dog community.
Two Yuba County sheriff’s deputies fired their weapons at a kidnapping suspect Thursday afternoon during a vehicle pursuit, but the man was not hit and continued to flee until he was bitten by a police dog and taken into custody.
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Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
1 May 2026
Video released on Thursday, April 30, appears to show a police dog sniffing White House Correspondents' dinner accused shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, moments before shots were fired on Saturday, April 25.
Jessie Holmes and his team of sled dogs successfully defended their Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race title this week, becoming the first musher to accomplish the feat in a decade.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2026
The grueling sled dog race covers about 1,000 miles in the Alaska wilderness.
Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
Silver moment of the Games: Everyone loved it when Nazgul, the 2-year-old Czech wolf dog, joined the women’s cross-country competition at the end and ran, without benefit of skis, across the finish line.
Cassie is trying to become social-media famous, suggestively flashing her all-American assets online in a variety of fetishy costumes (a puppy dog, a pacifier-sucking baby).
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Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
Unlike the children, who look like waxy versions of my own, this is my husband, with the soft face and the plaid shirt and the puppy dog—
Eyes.