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Recent Examples of housebroken
One housebroken joey would watch television in their living room.
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Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
The country’s leading art educator was the mediocre German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, who promulgated a sort of housebroken neoclassicism.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
Dogs supposedly trained to detect and respond to potentially life-threatening blood sugar levels in people with diabetes were, in reality, often untrained, un-housebroken puppies with hefty pricetags—currently set at $25,000.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
Sherman, discarded by the Seahawks, arrives with bad-puppy baggage — old, banged-up, a rep for being not quite housebroken.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
The country’s leading art educator was the mediocre German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, who promulgated a sort of housebroken neoclassicism.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
Dogs supposedly trained to detect and respond to potentially life-threatening blood sugar levels in people with diabetes were, in reality, often untrained, un-housebroken puppies with hefty pricetags—currently set at $25,000.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
Sherman, discarded by the Seahawks, arrives with bad-puppy baggage — old, banged-up, a rep for being not quite housebroken.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2018
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“Housebroken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housebroken. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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