yak
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Her 3-year-old daughter, Oaklee, rode their yak Tashi last month in Fairplay’s Burro Days festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Namgyal worked in Alaska, New York City and finally Colorado, the place most resembling Nepal and the epicenter of yak ranching in the United States.
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
The yak and his little yak friends started asking Daniel to dance for them, and he didn’t see that they were laughing or that anything was wrong until the main yak—what was his name?
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
“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 the words of the late great Marty DiBergi: Enough of my yakking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
Now the college football country settles in for another week of yakking about whether college football might be in some sort of existential trouble.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022
In truth, the answer was: no one about to be onscreen yakking had much of anything to offer.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2019
NBC, ABC, FOX all have vans with antennas and slick-dressed reporters yakking into microphones.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
She led customers into remote wilderness while yaks hauled the baggage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
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
Non-stop snow, instant noodles and yaks: tales of being trapped on Everest.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Most Westerners, however, have a hard time telling any of these shaggy beasts apart and refer to all of them as yaks.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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