cow
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“I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy…personally ran over the cow in his car.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
He confirmed that the item which could not find a buyer had been the cow from the Branxton Menagerie.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
“We are at incredibly high beef prices because the cow herd is at its lowest point in 80 years,” says Justin Benavidez, the Department of Agriculture’s chief economist.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It looks simple, but if a child miscounts, counts one cow twice or skips one, it reveals they need to work on their number sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
My mother has lived her whole life in a hut made of sticks and cow dung, and you could put everything she owns on the seat of a chair.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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It is a place out of time, reached by a rocky road between arid hills and the sea where you have to dodge stray cows, goats and wild horses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
He also urged his viewers to "speak up" as "now was the time to fight for the sake of the protectors of cows".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The study reaffirms fears that many wolves are becoming dependent on cattle as a primary food source as it is easier to feed on slow-moving, fatty cows than stalk the state’s dwindling deer population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
We wouldn’t be able to feed people cows.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The cows were munching hay in their stalls when the big barn door slid open and a mechanical monster stomped in from the rain.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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After the ravages of more than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Driving through Virginia to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover saw for himself pastures toasted brown, corn drooping dead on the stalk, lean kine herded miles to water.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The gods, moreover, made queer signs appear: cowhides began to crawl, and beef, both raw and roasted, lowed like kine upon the spits.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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But O’Donnell has refused to be cowed by the president’s bullying for nearly 20 years.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Tech was the major driver behind the better-than-expected earnings growth in the first quarter of this year, as well as subsequent upward revisions, so it’s little wonder bulls aren’t cowed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
But feminists should not be cowed — and not just because this case, a version of which was already litigated in Carroll’s favor, is likely to crumble in court.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
In seeking the injunction, Bonta’s office argues that Amazon threatens “dire consequences if vendors do not comply. Vendors, cowed by Amazon’s overwhelming bargaining leverage and fearing punishment, comply,” according to the filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
How he hadn’t been the least bit cowed by the rude remarks or digs of the night.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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“To have the same effect of cowing the Taiwan population, Beijing is forced to be more threatening,” said Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist at the National University of Singapore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
According to the The Committee to Protect Journalists, there are few effective barriers to prevent autocratic governments from using sophisticated surveillance technology to attempt cowing or silencing a free press.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
Even as lawmakers, business groups and foreign leaders expressed alarm, senior White House officials showed no sign of backing down or cowing under the blowback.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2019
Some faculty members have criticized the statement as cowing to the legislature and not sticking up for faculty.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2015
Rather than cowing the students into submission, the arrests stiffened their resolve, and they returned to the streets with renewed conviction.
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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