yak
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Oaklee Garner, 3, and her grandmother Julie Pettee look at the yak bulls at the Pettee Ranch in Fairplay, Colo. 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
“On market day, we would get up at 3 a.m. and walk the yak to Namche Bazaar to get groceries,” Pasang said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
One of them approaches a vendor selling barbecued strips of yak meat.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
But you can also find cheese made with milk from other animals like sheep, goats and even water buffalo and yak.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
Milked mammals include the cow, sheep, goat, horse, reindeer, water buffalo, yak, and Arabian and Bactrian camels.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“Ms. Blatt, what do you think the Second Circuit meant when it yakked about … judges not being art critics?” he asked.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
They yakked about nothing and everything, except what was around them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
And Donald Trump appeared on some TV show and yakked about his well-being.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
But in all the decades he yakked about the college game, he'd never have as big an effect as he did on the NFL in 1981.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2012
She waggled her finger at Rafik and yakked excitedly.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
In other instances throughout, she fiddles with her phone while others are yakking away and is always just a bit on the outskirts.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
Concerning groundwater, politicians and water officials have been yakking about recharging the drained aquifers for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
In the run-up to that, the Europeans have been using old terms such as “Belfry,” yakking about having known Seve Ballesteros personally and yammering about the fun of Brookline even in defeat.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
We’d already spent hours yakking into the night about computers, politics, education.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
She led customers into remote wilderness while yaks hauled the baggage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Namgyal and his wife were raised with yaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
A genetic adaptation that allows animals such as yaks and Tibetan antelopes to survive in thin air may also point to a new way to repair nerve damage in humans.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
It could have ended in tragically had it not been for a well-coordinated rescue, with yaks and horses deployed to clear the snow.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
Farming is difficult in the high, cold, steep-walled valleys, so the traditional Sherpa economy revolved around trading between Tibet and India, and herding yaks.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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