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mules

British  
/ mjuːlz /

verb

  1. (tr) to perform the Mules operation on (a sheep)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Many of them have been stretched into new silhouettes of the Samba, for example, into both ballerinas, into mules, into Mary Janes.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Scholl slider mules are the original orthopaedic shoe, Baidoo says - and admits she once had a pair in pink suede.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Many Cuban-Americans now resort to informal service providers such as money runners, known locally as mules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

On the nouveau fashion blogs of Substack, women exchange styling ideas for the brand’s signature pierced mules.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Where this morning a battalion of tractors had plied the gravel paths, hauling carts loaded with fish and peat-bricks up and down from the harbor, now those carts were being pulled by horses and mules.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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