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beef

[beef] / bif /




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Her beef is with the technology designed to help drivers drive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

I considered prosciutto, roast beef, cured meats and even a pickle-heavy chickpea salad.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Some less-processed foods contain more fat and calories because they include nutrient-dense whole-food ingredients such as peanuts or beef.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

If that were really the issue, the government could beef up the corps of asylum officers and strengthen the system.

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

Yet Bliss tried to push hard-to-digest foods on him, such as steak, lamb chops, and beef.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

In the history of musical beefs, some cuts reign supreme.

From Salon May 16, 2026

American business and Silicon Valley, in particular, are littered with classic beefs fueled by ambition, greed and green-eyed jealousy: the late Steve Jobs vs.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 7, 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

The Grand Championship prize for best of baby beeves went to an Aberdeen-Angus.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

He himself lives in London, where Cohere recently beefed up its offices.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Trackers have really evolved, and beefed up on artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

The backroom staff has been beefed up, with Sarah Taylor enlisted to sort the fielding and Troy Cooley adding support to the fast bowlers.

From BBC Jun. 3, 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

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

Automakers from Hyundai to GM are beefing up their certified used-car programs, covering cars for longer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 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

“I will continue to do the work on beefing up the system, so you can call 911 and have the right team respond,” she told an audience last month.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 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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