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[bey] / beɪ /




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Though no charges have been filed against Walter or anyone associated with his businesses, one could imagine Walter pulling the trigger on the Dodgers sale simply to keep the feds at bay.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Distressed wood tables and cushioned couches overlook the bay with capacity for about 100 guests.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The government previously identified, external that "nutrients from outside the bay, run-off from streams that contain fertiliser and treated waste water from the water treatment works' all normally contribute to the growth of sea lettuce".

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

The bay duiker antelope, for example, gives birth to offspring that weigh about as much as the estimated newborn C. theotonicus.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

She explained that a flock of geese had flown over the bay and regaled the coastal birds with the amazing story of the wild robot and her son, the goose.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

River otters are not to be confused with sea otters, which live in the ocean, bays and harbors and can grow to be up to five feet and 100 pounds.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

He uses fans in the bays for the mechanics.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

The effort includes a partnership with Ford in Detroit, where Bloomberg and the automaker are kicking in $2.5 million each, partly to fund new auto-repair bays for high schoolers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

Some of the bays on the rooftop are partially covered with canopies.

From BBC May 29, 2026

Back he went, right up into their faces, where he pestered them with yelling bays and false rushes till they couldn’t stand it.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

A tri-colored package of personality-plus, Uno quickly bayed his way to fan favorite.

From Seattle Times Feb. 14, 2021

This sent noise levels in the Commons through the roof as Conservative MPs bayed across the chamber at the Labour leader.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2018

He waved, then disappeared inside, but the crowds bayed for more until he reappeared at the first-floor window of No 10, along with Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor, and Winston Churchill, the minister of munitions.

From The Guardian Aug. 12, 2018

On a recent afternoon this summer, while her loyal dogs bayed outside, Laura Mathews sat at the dining table in her spacious suburban home with tears in her hazel eyes.

From Chicago Tribune Sep. 8, 2014

Caleb bayed and Ma Charles told him to hush but Caleb kept making his noise and the chickens squawked on and on.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

That entire pseudo-event was one one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments that get drowned out in the endless baying insanity of our collective reality.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2026

There was nothing more the Swiss racer could do to reel in Franzoni's time in a race held in front of tens of thousands of baying fans in overcast conditions.

From Barron's Jan. 24, 2026

Later, “Dance of the Reed Flutes” becomes a sleazy, vaudevillian show tune sung by an anthropomorphic Rat King to his loyal subjects, a group of baying rodents dressed like SS officers.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2023

The Springboks can take down the home team in front of an expected 78,000 baying French fans on the outskirts of Paris.

From Washington Times Oct. 13, 2023

Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds ricocheted across parlours, three-cushion shooting from right wall to centre wall to left wall, gone, right wall, centre wall, left wall, gone!

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury




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