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[kau] / kaʊ /


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“It looked like somebody dragged her through a field with a tractor and in the mud with cow pies.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Throughout the year, Google has had strong growth in search advertising, still its cash cow, as AI-powered features such as summaries and chatbot features have spurred more search usage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Although that is much slower than an Olympic swimmer, who can travel up to 65 body lengths per minute, it is comparable to the swimming pace of a cow shark moving leisurely through the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

And additional thanks to Lorne Michaels, who knows a ratings/headlines cow when he sees one, even if he doesn’t want to house him in his own barn at the end of the night.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

I just had an entire conversation with a cow.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Hammond, who has about 800 cows in Glade Spring, Va., says the loss of Tyson’s plant and JBS’s Pennsylvania plant is a huge blow to the region.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Developer Gareth McDonald describes FarmDrive as "Facebook for cows".

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Six men taking several ferries, driving in a van over 1,200 miles on one-lane roads shared with cows, hiking miles of rugged terrain, all while carrying our clubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

On “Heal My Faith,” the rapper who first gained mainstream attention by lighting the pop chart’s sacred cows afire wonders why we can’t all just get along.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

The cows looked up from their stalls as the goose perched himself on a railing near the middle of the barn.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl.

From Time Magazine Archive

In that time, the unhappy custodians of the Tate have willy-nilly acquired tons and acres of lowing kine, rearing horses, languorous ladies, idyllic landscapes and storm-beset ships-of-the-line.

From Time Magazine Archive

Driving through Virginia to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover saw for himself pastures toasted brown, corn drooping dead on the stalk, lean kine herded miles to water.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.

From Time Magazine Archive

So overweening, now they have killed my peaceful kine, my joy at morning when I climbed the sky of stars, and evening, when I bore westward from heaven.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Far from being cowed by the zeal of his enemies, he draws fuel from it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

But O’Donnell has refused to be cowed by the president’s bullying for nearly 20 years.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

But feminists should not be cowed — and not just because this case, a version of which was already litigated in Carroll’s favor, is likely to crumble in court.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

In seeking the injunction, Bonta’s office argues that Amazon threatens “dire consequences if vendors do not comply. Vendors, cowed by Amazon’s overwhelming bargaining leverage and fearing punishment, comply,” according to the filing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

I decided this jumpy little man could be cowed.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Her primary rivals are not cowing before her national reputation.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

“To have the same effect of cowing the Taiwan population, Beijing is forced to be more threatening,” said Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist at the National University of Singapore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2022

Even as lawmakers, business groups and foreign leaders expressed alarm, senior White House officials showed no sign of backing down or cowing under the blowback.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2019

Some faculty members have criticized the statement as cowing to the legislature and not sticking up for faculty.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2015

Rather than cowing the students into submission, the arrests stiffened their resolve, and they returned to the streets with renewed conviction.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman


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