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[beef] / bif /




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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

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

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

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

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

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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