ox
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"This time of year there is not much to hunt. So we rely on musk ox meat and skin," Kleist says.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
One of Giovanni's most notable miracles involved healing an ox with a broken leg.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
There has been some success with the Australian government's crown-of-thorns starfish culling programme, which has killed over 50,000 starfish by injecting them with vinegar or ox bile.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
“If the Major has never met a musk ox while in sight of a great black-backed gull, he has nothing to compare, you see.”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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When I was pulling the oxen in the fields, my dad would tell me, “The farrows; they should be straight,” for that simple reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A two-hour drive west of Havana, in rural Consolacion del Sur, the picture is much the same for farmer Fidel Maqueira, who spends his nights guarding his oxen against theft.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
When that stopped paying out, he used his oxen to feed the town of Bodie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
They put one broken half of Plymouth Rock into the wagon, and the 30 oxen had an easier trip up Cole’s Hill, and they deposited it beside the liberty pole.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
The wagon is broken in the mud, the oxen would not move, the soldiers needed Pa to help them fix the wagon.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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With protectionist trade policies, there's a very strong likelihood that there may be more oxes gored than lambs saved.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2017
Partly it’s cultural inertia, but I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that the companies whose oxes are being gored own some of the nation’s tallest soapboxes.
From Forbes ● Jul. 11, 2011
She jumps on the cart and Wilf snaps the reins on his oxes.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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Gentyllmen, have you not hearde of Aesopps dogge That once lay snarlinge in the oxes maunger?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
But Jerry, who was up in the wagon playing teamster cried, 'I see dem, Mudder; oxes and Mith Lane.'
From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead