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[beef] / bif /




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"At that time there was a beef. A week or two after he went to see Connor Palfrey and they squashed their beef," he said, meaning they resolved the issue.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Some 1,500 acres of the family’s land is currently used to graze cattle, acreage it hopes to expand by around 100 acres to increase the head of cattle it has while beef prices are high.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Red wine vinegar is wonderful with hearty lentil, bean and farro soups, and I love it in beef stew.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

"For us Hungarians, paprika is a wonder," one of the competitors, local fast-food restaurant owner Imre Zseni said, while stirring a beef stew.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Maybe their planes would be taken away to beef up an existing men’s regiment, and they’d be back to square one looking for a way to volunteer.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The new law beefs up the penalties for those that flout the ban.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Revisit one of rap’s most infamous beefs: Decades after Tupac Shakur’s killing, there’s been a conviction.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

American business and Silicon Valley, in particular, are littered with classic beefs fueled by ambition, greed and green-eyed jealousy: the late Steve Jobs vs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

A large portion of this is because the hip-hop industry has mistreated Megan with exploitative record deals, beefs with rappers and the spread of misinformation online.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 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

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

At that, 50,000 people applauded, fell upon 1.000 barbecued beeves, 130,000 foot-long sandwiches, downed gallons of lemonade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Besides beeves it sometimes afflicts sheep, goats, hogs, horses, dogs, cats, camels, buffalo, bison, antelope, chamois, llama, giraffe.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The rules take effect as Beijing has beefed up its export control regime—including on items like rare-earth minerals—and enacted a network of laws to prevent individuals and businesses from complying with foreign sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Or three letters for “Rapper who famously beefed with Jay-Z”? Try your hand at today’s crossword!

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Willis' all-action game would have beefed up England's anaemic Six Nations.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Trackers have really evolved, and beefed up on artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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

He tried switching to TikTok ads and beefing up the club’s email list.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

And finally, with the SEC opening the door to tokenized equities, they explain what it means for stocks to be traded like crypto—and why AMC is beefing with Robinhood over it.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026

Japan is slowly beefing up its military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, and has spent years fortifying vulnerable islands stretching down to Taiwan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

LinkedIn says it is beefing up scam-detection efforts but can’t catch everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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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