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[beef] / bif /




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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

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

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

But angry words, as Bowles well knows, bring few beeves to market.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if you raid the beeves, I see destruction for ship and crew.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

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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