yak
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Daniele Garner brushes a yak at the Pettee Ranch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Namgyal worked in Alaska, New York City and finally Colorado, the place most resembling Nepal and the epicenter of yak ranching in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
As for the cheese, it’s traditionally made with Bhutanese yak cheese for a tangy flavor, and increasingly cow’s milk cheese.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
One of them approaches a vendor selling barbecued strips of yak meat.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
“Ms. Blatt, what do you think the Second Circuit meant when it yakked about … judges not being art critics?” he asked.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
They yakked about nothing and everything, except what was around them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
And Donald Trump appeared on some TV show and yakked about his well-being.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
But in all the decades he yakked about the college game, he'd never have as big an effect as he did on the NFL in 1981.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2012
Mr. Hofacket yakked away as my vision gradually returned.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
In the words of the late great Marty DiBergi: Enough of my yakking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
It’s a job of waiting and playing, waiting and playing, sometimes waiting on horse pundits on TV to finish their yakking and then playing.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022
In truth, the answer was: no one about to be onscreen yakking had much of anything to offer.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2019
At home, there was her little brother yakking it up, Jen and her mom arguing. words of others at bay.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Colorado is home to an estimated half of the yaks in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
A genetic adaptation that allows animals such as yaks and Tibetan antelopes to survive in thin air may also point to a new way to repair nerve damage in humans.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
It could have ended in tragically had it not been for a well-coordinated rescue, with yaks and horses deployed to clear the snow.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
Even with the modern availability of synthetic fertilizers produced by chemical factories, the major source of crop fertilizer today in most societies is still animal manure—especially of cows, but also of yaks and sheep.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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