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buffalo

[buhf-uh-loh] / ˈbʌf əˌloʊ /


















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Real-life proprietor Andrea Pruett, a sweet but steely Southerner who kept her own gun behind the counter, greeted them in French and German, then fed them buffalo burgers and omelets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Authorities in Zambia have warned people not to eat meat from wildlife after dozens of wild animals, including hippos, elephants, buffalo and a crocodile died following an anthrax outbreak.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

This super fragrant, flavorful dish features slow-cooked, fall-apart-tender buffalo in a curry with notes of clove and nutmeg.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Sometimes his friends would even dare him to tell a joke about buffalo wings, the kind of dares that can only be conceived by years of friendship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Sometimes in the buffalo shed; other times the band shell benches or the pavilion.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

Another woman, Goma Pandit, said she had lost her buffaloes and all her other cattle.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Faced with poaching and the gradual destruction of their natural habitats, big mammals have largely disappeared, according to the survey which underlined the need to protect chimpanzees, buffaloes and elephants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

More than 80 buffaloes have been killed after they trampled over each other and drowned in a river, Namibia's environment and tourism department has said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

It has some of the fewer than 100 remaining critically endangered mountain bongos in the world, alongside rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards and others.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

"We've been entertaining some Buffalo friends of Mrs. Antolini's . . . Some buffaloes, as a matter of fact."

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

This includes the taurine cattle found primarily in Europe and temperate areas of Asia; indicine cattle, or zebus, found primarily in India and tropical areas of Asia; and water buffalos in East and Southeast Asia.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

For now, the county has told people to use bottled water for all their needs or to fill jugs at tankers called water buffalos, which have been brought in near the burns.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

The family is from Ibrash, in the agricultural Nile Delta province of Sharqia, where water buffalos, cows and donkeys share dirt roads with cars, motorbikes and three-wheeled rickshaws known as tuk-tuks.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

While cow slaughter is illegal in several Indian states, including Uttar Pradesh, buffalos are exempt from the ban.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2022

In the fields, gray buffalos and brown cows graze lazily on the grass.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

"Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites," he said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021

The senior-laden Bulls have won 12 consecutive games and won’t be able to sneak up on anyone after they buffaloed Arizona in the first round last season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2019

“You probably could have buffaloed people 10 years ago,” said Sassa.

From Time ● Feb. 18, 2015

Others complain that he has run the school with a somewhat autocratic hand and feel that they have been buffaloed into casting votes and rallying behind causes that they haven’t necessarily supported.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2012

Despite this, Dasch confidently assured them that he had "buffaloed" the man.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

When it comes to buffaloing the opposite side, that's my long suit.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams




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