beef
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Red wine vinegar is wonderful with hearty lentil, bean and farro soups, and I love it in beef stew.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
I enjoy eating emu and ostrich, which taste surprisingly like beef.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
"For us Hungarians, paprika is a wonder," one of the competitors, local fast-food restaurant owner Imre Zseni said, while stirring a beef stew.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Easing tariffs on foreign beef imports continue to damage efforts to rebuild domestic cattle herds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Wow, I didn’t expect you to beef with Leo first thing in the morning,” Pua says.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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The new law beefs up the penalties for those that flout the ban.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Revisit one of rap’s most infamous beefs: Decades after Tupac Shakur’s killing, there’s been a conviction.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 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
Released in January, "Hiss" set the tone and standard for rap beefs and diss tracks to come later in the year.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 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
At that, 50,000 people applauded, fell upon 1.000 barbecued beeves, 130,000 foot-long sandwiches, downed gallons of lemonade.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 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
Or three letters for “Rapper who famously beefed with Jay-Z”? Try your hand at today’s crossword!
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
A company called Bear-ier Solutions recently beefed up her wiring after a bear surprised Ziegler when she returned with balloons in hand on her 91st birthday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Sebastian Capital, the Manhattan company that manages the 723-acre site, said it has beefed up security and appreciates the help from police.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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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And finally, with the SEC opening the door to tokenized equities, they explain what it means for stocks to be traded like crypto—and why AMC is beefing with Robinhood over it.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been beefing up Tokyo’s armed forces with new weapons and capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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
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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