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buffalo

[buhf-uh-loh] / ˈbʌf əˌloʊ /


















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True, in the nearly two decades that she’s been creating plush figures, she’s produced charmingly minimalistic foxes, cats and buffalo fit for a nursery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

As the Corps of Discovery worked its way up the Missouri River, past herds that stretched to the horizon, they knew the shaggy brown beasts by the term Americans have used ever since: buffalo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tshenatshe Monwela, an elder in Maun, a tourism town in north-western Botswana told local media that his community should have received buffalo instead.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Real-life proprietor Andrea Pruett, a sweet but steely Southerner who kept her own gun behind the counter, greeted them in French and German, then fed them buffalo burgers and omelets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Oh, hon, that’s only ’cause he needs some way to sop up Leafie’s good buffalo berry jelly!”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Another woman, Goma Pandit, said she had lost her buffaloes and all her other cattle.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Around noon, dozens of buffaloes stood in a pond.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

The 73-year-old president has disputed the amount of money involved and said only $580,000 from the sale of 20 buffaloes to a Sudanese businessman had been stolen.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

It has some of the fewer than 100 remaining critically endangered mountain bongos in the world, alongside rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards and others.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Jody lay in his bed and thought of the impossible world of Indians and buffaloes, a world that had ceased to be forever.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

This includes the taurine cattle found primarily in Europe and temperate areas of Asia; indicine cattle, or zebus, found primarily in India and tropical areas of Asia; and water buffalos in East and Southeast Asia.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

For now, the county has told people to use bottled water for all their needs or to fill jugs at tankers called water buffalos, which have been brought in near the burns.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

The family is from Ibrash, in the agricultural Nile Delta province of Sharqia, where water buffalos, cows and donkeys share dirt roads with cars, motorbikes and three-wheeled rickshaws known as tuk-tuks.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

He says the amount stolen was $580,000 - and that he got it for selling buffalos.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022

I kept on walking, passing paddocks filled with horses, cows, and shaggy-furred cattle that I realized must be buffalos.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

When was the last time you looked at the exquisite list of synonyms for the word “baffled”? They may be among the best in the English language: puzzled, nonplused, discombobulated, flummoxed, stumped, fogged, wildered, buffaloed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

"Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites," he said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021

The senior-laden Bulls have won 12 consecutive games and won’t be able to sneak up on anyone after they buffaloed Arizona in the first round last season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2019

“You probably could have buffaloed people 10 years ago,” said Sassa.

From Time ● Feb. 18, 2015

Despite this, Dasch confidently assured them that he had "buffaloed" the man.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

When it comes to buffaloing the opposite side, that's my long suit.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams


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