beef
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The charcoal-grilled hanger steak, which Pettingell said is sourced from natural beef ranchers, is by far the biggest cost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
To keep up with the portions of protein her customers order, Singletary, who opened Urban Comfort Foods in October, has switched to a different distributor for beef and lamb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The President said last year he had lifted tariffs on beef imports, and in February he allowed some 80,000 more metric tons of beef from Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Despite higher beef prices, US consumer demand for the meat remains robust.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Percy brought her the plate of roast beef, and she wolfed it down.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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In the history of musical beefs, some cuts reign supreme.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
While the rapper born Jermaine Lamarr Cole and raised in Fayetteville, N.C., has participated in his share of public beefs, he has never acted like he had all the answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
You may not typically think of WordPress, the blogging platform turned ubiquitous content management system, as a workplace rife with corporate drama, or as an instigator of petty public beefs.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024
Drake had other beefs with other performers, like Meek Mill in 2015, and most infamously Pusha T in 2018, where the latter rapper dropped “The Story of Adidon,” revealing Drake is a father.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
In my lunch group, we dissected whatever had gone on that morning at school, any beefs we had with teachers, any assignments that struck us as useless.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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But Bessent’s image of immigrants smuggling their infected beeves across the border is transparent fantasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
He described it as “a few hundred acres of dirt, some clusters of old barns and outbuildings… a few beeves and hogs or a flock of sheep.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2012
Probably not, because only a minute proportion of Brazil's beeves have been fattened with the aid of hormones.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But angry words, as Bowles well knows, bring few beeves to market.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Municipalities have set up dedicated observation points and beefed up security, emergency and transport resources in the hope of managing the mayhem during mainland Spain's first total eclipse in more than a century.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
To what extent will the No 10 operation be beefed up, and how much clout will No 10 North, Burnham's office in Manchester, have?
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Over the past year, the carrier has beefed up its schedule there and is poised to win back gates it previously lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
James Monroe and Andrew Jackson beefed up and refurbished the White House.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Takaichi has also accelerated a beefing up of Japan's military capabilities as its sheds its strict pacifist stance in place since the war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Picking up the pace is a worthy goal, he said, but that would mean beefing up the workforce, disrupting traffic and commerce with more street closures, and asking customers to write bigger checks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
His remarks come amid Germany beefing up its military capacity in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
It has also moved slowly in beefing up its social safety net so people have more confidence to spend rather than save.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
It’s not that he was beefing with our father or that they didn’t get along—I take that back.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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