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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

The 28 tonnes seized by the NCA included 19 tonnes at Heathrow, where officers made 530 arrests, and about five tonnes at Manchester, where 145 suspected "mules" were detained.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The government in Havana has very little access to remittances, because they usually arrive via private travelers known as money "mules," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

I had been enamored of this view since 1962, when I first drove to the end of Highway 190 in Quaking Aspen to begin my summer job packing mules into the Sierra backcountry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

We were moving up a hill now, the mules straining forward.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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