goose
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You’ll notice that the coyote isn’t even accorded a jury of his peers, merely two animated jurors out of 12, and one is a silly goose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
While the next men’s World Cup, FIFA’s biggest golden goose, is still four years away, the consequences of a European boycott would have been felt immediately.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Working together, the flock increases its flying range by 71% over a goose flying solo.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
I stopped cold in the middle of the hall as goose bumps ran up my arms, prickling like needles along my neck, because it hadn’t been dumb luck.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
"When we won, this perfect V of geese flew right over our heads and over the clubhouse."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
During 26 trophy-laden years at Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson would often stop training and tell his players to look to the sky and observe the geese overhead.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"An eyewitness account of about 20 'geese' taking flight and heading toward the river just minutes before a loud bang was heard corroborates geese in the area shortly before the crash."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Today, producers are concentrated in the eastern provinces of Shandong and Anhui, where farmers churn out thousands of tons of foie gras by force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
After leading the geese toward Montreal, Mr. Lemoncello drifted down to buzz and salute the statues perched atop the pillars at the base of the dome.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
But I dug how Cretton gooses our spidey senses with dramatic sound effects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Presprouting gooses corms into an even earlier bloom.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
The experimental vaccine takes an entirely different approach: It gooses the body's preexisting supply of pathogen-gobbling immune cells called macrophages, which engulf and digest bacteria, fungi and other bad actors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
And she gooses the dramatic tension with a few scattered hints — such as the woman’s neglect in taking her Honda Civic to the shop — that later flower savagely.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
I was surprised that all them sitting-in-one-spot ducks and gooses hadn’t been took home and cooked.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Cycling, like other endurance sports, has undergone a revolution in carb-taking, a trend that also goosed mind-bending breakthroughs like the recent sub 2-hour marathons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Everybody knew that Sallinger was goosed on first, or second, viewing.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Meanwhile Nathan Johnson’s score of scratchy cellos and foreboding horns pairs well with a dramatic burst of organ music — one of many goofy-great jump scares goosed up by the editor Bob Ducsay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
Still, even if that report is goosed up, just look out the window.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The bed sagged, the TV picture jumped as if it were being mercilessly goosed by an electronic component, and my door didn’t lock.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The kids took to TikTok and Instagram to dissect every awful thing Banks and the rest did in the name of goosing ratings, with many wondering why its audience barely blinked at its endless exploitation.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
It’s a key point on Wall Street because cuts to rates would release pressure on the economy and the financial system, while goosing investment prices.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
He’s gripped by the mechanics of how the divers pulled it off, a feat that needs very little goosing from the composer Benjamin Wallfisch’s rattling cymbals to play like a thriller.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
Parton gives the hoary tune new life by flipping the gender of Rodgers’ lyric — she’s a “lady muleskinner” — and by goosing it with a hurtling rock-and-soul rhythm track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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