beef
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KOW Wagyu beef cheeks require minimal effort for a massive flavor payoff.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
And thousands of French words that we still use today entered the English language - everything from law, parliament and justice to mutton, beef and pork.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Rowdy children represent yet another challenge for restaurants like his that have struggled through the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and, more recently, skyrocketing prices for beef, cooking oil and other goods, Xue said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
An Agriculture Department official called top grocers, including Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons, to ask about plans for beef prices heading into the July 4 holiday weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
I spent the rest of the day in bed, racked by chills and cramping muscles, and choked down the leftover potato kugel and beef kishka that Mrs. Brenner kindly brought over for dinner.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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In the history of musical beefs, some cuts reign supreme.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
While the rapper born Jermaine Lamarr Cole and raised in Fayetteville, N.C., has participated in his share of public beefs, he has never acted like he had all the answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
You may not typically think of WordPress, the blogging platform turned ubiquitous content management system, as a workplace rife with corporate drama, or as an instigator of petty public beefs.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024
Drake had other beefs with other performers, like Meek Mill in 2015, and most infamously Pusha T in 2018, where the latter rapper dropped “The Story of Adidon,” revealing Drake is a father.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
In my lunch group, we dissected whatever had gone on that morning at school, any beefs we had with teachers, any assignments that struck us as useless.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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But Bessent’s image of immigrants smuggling their infected beeves across the border is transparent fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
He described it as “a few hundred acres of dirt, some clusters of old barns and outbuildings… a few beeves and hogs or a flock of sheep.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2012
Probably not, because only a minute proportion of Brazil's beeves have been fattened with the aid of hormones.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Besides beeves it sometimes afflicts sheep, goats, hogs, horses, dogs, cats, camels, buffalo, bison, antelope, chamois, llama, giraffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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James Monroe and Andrew Jackson beefed up and refurbished the White House.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
BlackRock reported $9 billion of net inflows in private markets, where it has recently beefed up capabilities with a series of acquisitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
North Korea's abrupt border closure in 2020 stranded many of them abroad for years, and Pyongyang later beefed up defences along the frontier to dissuade illegal crossings.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026
While “House of David” contains plenty of action set pieces, their scope is beefed up by AI-generated imagery — more than 350 shots in Season 2 alone, Erwin told Wired, citing budget constraints.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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With no day-to-day responsibilities at work, he spent his time focused on beefing up TFA’s roster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
His remarks come amid Germany beefing up its military capacity in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
“I will continue to do the work on beefing up the system, so you can call 911 and have the right team respond,” she told an audience last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Some schools are starting their own in-house lending programs and others are beefing up their lists of private lenders with which they have special deals.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
It’s not that he was beefing with our father or that they didn’t get along—I take that back.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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