yak
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As for the cheese, it’s traditionally made with Bhutanese yak cheese for a tangy flavor, and increasingly cow’s milk cheese.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
This is the roof of the world where traffic gives way to yak herders on horseback whistling to reluctant, grunting cattle, as eagles circle above.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
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
Likewise, all photos that ran on the Web had first seen sent by yak and then air courier to New York for transmission.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
“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
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
“But, on the very same page they’re yakking about, it says it has to be reasonably perceived as having a distinctive artistic purpose, one that conveys a new meaning.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
In truth, the answer was: no one about to be onscreen yakking had much of anything to offer.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2019
Usually they played kickball at recess, but Missy wouldn’t stop yakking about Skeleton Woman.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
Non-stop snow, instant noodles and yaks: tales of being trapped on Everest.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
"This shows that yaks were domesticated and milked in Mongolia much earlier than previously assumed," notes Wilkin.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
The women whistle and holler at the sheep, goats and yaks to stop them straying from the narrow paths and falling down the mountainside.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
With each step, the bridge shook under the weight of people and yaks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
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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