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[beef] / bif /




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She remembers paying $2 a pound for ground beef; now she is paying $8, she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Food sources such as chicken, beef, salmon and tofu contain all the essential amino acids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Competition for buyers is heating up, which will force companies like Lennar and KB home to beef up incentives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Even accounting for fishmeal and transportation to the U.S., the production of certain farmed fish, including tilapia and Atlantic salmon, emits less greenhouse gas per pound than beef or pork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

JP chops the rest of the beef jerky into smaller pieces and seasons it with packets from the noodles.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

That’s part of the dance of rap beefs though, to have artistic license but a wink at real life resonance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025

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

The Grand Championship prize for best of baby beeves went to an Aberdeen-Angus.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

In recent years, Pyongyang has beefed up its border fortifications, laying new land mines, constructing new walls and building antitank barriers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

He himself lives in London, where Cohere recently beefed up its offices.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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

Tokyo hopes that by beefing up its capabilities—in areas such as missile defense, naval power and drones—it can strengthen U.S. commitments to the region’s defense, Japanese officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Takaichi has also accelerated a beefing up of Japan's military capabilities as its sheds its strict pacifist stance in place since the war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 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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