as in foal
an adult female horse
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Recent Examples of mare
This is the epitome of mare e montagna (mountain and sea).
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Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025
And Lilly is the kindest mare ever.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
That mare has paid her way many times, packing elk quarters out to the nearest jeep road.
—Fred C. Mercer, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
Created through the union of a mare and a griffin, the hippogriff is part horse, part eagle, and, Ariosto announces, capable of flying to the moon.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mare
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During the day, the foal and the calf are free to interact, something the duo has taken advantage of.—
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During this time, monitor horses for signs of disease and keep pregnant mares with foals at their side in small groups and away from new/returning horses.—
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There’s no reason to abandon your star stallion just before the big race.—
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Among the latter is ravenous beaver Nibbles Maplestick (Fortune Feimster, hilarious), who turns out to be a key ally, and pompous new mayor Brian Winddancer (Patrick Warburton), a stallion who used to be an actor.—
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The 6-year-old gelding hasn’t run since finishing third in the Grade 2 Turf Sprint on Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill Downs.—
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Tame the Tiger, a 3-year-old gelding with three career races, was injured Saturday, according to the California Horse Racing Board.—
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The latter was shipped to the Indianapolis Colts in a deal that brought New York two first-round picks and wide receiver AD Mitchell, whom the colts drafted in the second round in 2024.—
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Tom Welling lives the good life on a horse farm in Northern California with his golden retriever Rosey and colt Apollo.—
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Sunday finale Brown is seeking his seventh Matriarch win in nine years Sunday in the one-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.—
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The $80,000 Swingtime Stakes matches a large field of fillies and mares seeking their first stakes win in 2025.—
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Development of roads and buildings in the Ag Reserve, though meticulous, has reduced the space available for equine operators to take horses out for rides, the O’Donnells argue.—
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Because of an outbreak of equine herpesvirus, a contagious equine virus that can cause neurological and respiratory diseases, the decision was made to not have any horses or other equines in the parade.—
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Rent your steed from Red Raven and let those chunky-monkey tires carry you along the area's 50 miles of trails.—
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Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos rolled through Aspen this week on their trusty steed—sorry, private jet—to celebrate Sánchez Bezos’s 56th birthday.—
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“Mare.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mare. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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