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calves

noun as in cattle

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One is a long-term decline in the size of the U.S. cattle herd, which has fallen to about 87.2 million head of cattle and calves, its lowest level since 1951.

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“When I assisted at the births of calves and lambs back at the Swanburne Academy, Dr. Westminster always said we should keep calm and trust nature to take its course.”

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Several new calves had been born, and a dispute involving the ownership of a plow had been peaceably resolved, once both parties realized that plowsharing would grow more crops than fighting ever could.

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Testing the Vomero Premium sometimes left them with sore calves, he said, because the shoe’s stack height was too high initially.

When my hips, quads, back, knees, calves, ankles and feet started to howl in intense pain, I felt a bit like a failure.

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