cow
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When the cow died, Granma published her obituary on its front page, and a marble statue of her was erected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Castro was obsessed with cloning Ubre Blanca, a champion milk cow, to end the chronic milk shortage his agricultural policies created.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Yet as Eric Gropper puts it, you can't conjure a cow overnight.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
His cash cow: Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, the improvisational comic genius sometimes called the “Mexican Charlie Chaplin.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Then she began coating herself with mud and grass, and probably a little cow dung.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Castro even mused about breeding miniature cows for Havana families to keep at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Yak boosters say the animals leave a lighter hoof-print on the land because they eat one-third to one-half of what cows eat and produce less methane gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The remains came from both native and introduced animals, including cows, kangaroos, emus, sheep, pigs, dingoes, rabbits, possums, quolls and swamp rats.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
"I had cows and calves that I wanted to sell and trade was very good at that time," he told BBC News NI.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
From the age of six, in shoes made from tree bark, he gathered wood and water for the family and herded cows and sheep for nearby landowners.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He not realize he no can hear mollusks, like octopus, or other kine sea creatures.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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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
Perhaps most importantly, she’s developing Claude’s understanding of itself so it won’t be easily cowed, manipulated or led to view its identity as anything other than helpful and humane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
He was mocking me, of course, expecting me to slink down into my seat, cowed and ashamed.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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“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
According to the The Committee to Protect Journalists, there are few effective barriers to prevent autocratic governments from using sophisticated surveillance technology to attempt cowing or silencing a free press.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
“Master Class” showcased Zoe Caldwell as Callas recalling personal sacrifices and artistic triumphs, and cowing the audience with bromides.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020
There are signs, too, of new efforts to harness the law to the cause of cowing the press.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
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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