cow
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A boy in 4-H with a microphone was talking to a crowd about his cow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Anthropic has decided to keep its Claude chatbot ad-free, eschewing what has become a cash cow for OpenAI and other Big Tech companies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Then came illustrated guides purporting to explain how an anxious shopper might distinguish horse meat from cow meat by color, texture, fat and smell.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
TCS has been the group's cash cow, contributing to some 85% of cash flows, but is no longer the pillar of support it once was.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The girl did not know what to say to that, so she said nothing, continuing instead to let the cow nuzzle her hand.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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All the hay he had gathered to feed his cows in the winter was also burned.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Expanding this to dairy cows going to slaughter and joining them with Australian semen will provide a very large and quick increase in the American herd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
From that restaurant Cardoso could look out the window and see sloping hills and Lucas’ Wagyu cows raised there on the farm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
That is roughly equivalent to the annual methane emissions of more than two million cows.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Benefo flinches awake, scrambling out of his chair to see exactly what I’m seeing—a stampede of gigantic, armored cows.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
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Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl.
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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The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lampetia in her long gown meanwhile had borne swift word to the Overlord of Noon: ‘They have killed your kine.’
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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
Tech was the major driver behind the better-than-expected earnings growth in the first quarter of this year, as well as subsequent upward revisions, so it’s little wonder bulls aren’t cowed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 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
Of course some of us wept and raged when he once again had to flee some bigger monkey that he had clearly annoyed, but while Punch was certainly cowed, he was never broken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
The two men looked at each other, cowed, and tried to walk on.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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
Hurston defiantly writes without cowing to such worries.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
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
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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