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[kau] / kaʊ /


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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

Jurisdictions similar to Doddridge County—sparsely populated with few immigrants—make up the majority of new recruits to the DHS task force program, which has become a cash cow for state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

All of them found a buyer apart from a concrete cow.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Naw. I’ve never seen anything special, except that three-legged cow my grandpa used to have.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Caleb Howard is using technology to manage his 90 Jersey cows on the farm near Coagh in County Tyrone.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The greens on Barra were protected from the cows by fences, and you entered the greens through a turnstile.

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

They occur naturally in the milk of animals such as cows, sheep, and goats, but they can also be produced artificially during the manufacture of partially hydrogenated fats.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

I can’t actually rely on a bunch of giant cows, can I?

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After the ravages of more than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gods, moreover, made queer signs appear: cowhides began to crawl, and beef, both raw and roasted, lowed like kine upon the spits.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Jordan, who escapes relatively unscathed, is at once cowed and traumatized yet committed to vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Every time I got it close to the raft, it beat about with such frenzy that I was cowed into letting out some line.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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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