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buffalo

[buhf-uh-loh] / ˈbʌf əˌloʊ /


















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Devotees swear by the beer-battered mahi mahi tacos, but with salads, buffalo meatloaf and half-pound burgers also on offer, there’s something for everyone in the car.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

At the time, Ramaphosa said the cash was from the legitimate sale of buffalo from his farming business.

From BBC May 26, 2026

But it works just as well with buffalo sauce, Caesar-style toppings, or something more traditional with salsa and lime.

From Salon May 22, 2026

My Domino’s order is a small pepperoni, pineapple, olives and sausage slice ... hand tossed, cheesed up, and then I will get a side of garlic knots and a side of buffalo wings with ranch.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

Those plow animals were the cow, horse, water buffalo, Bali cattle, and yak / cow hybrids.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Judy, the first rabbit to join the city's police force, has proven to her macho colleagues — buffaloes, hippos, and warthogs — that she deserves her place in the investigative department.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

Hundreds of buffaloes have been killed in similar circumstances in the past.

From BBC Sep. 23, 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

Fires raged and the roads out of Saigon were jammed with refugees and water buffaloes pulling overloaded carts and crying children searching for parents and retreating South Vietnamese soldiers.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The large mammals that once inhabited it like lions, rhinos and buffalos have all been hunted out, most likely for food during the war.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2024

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

I kept on walking, passing paddocks filled with horses, cows, and shaggy-furred cattle that I realized must be buffalos.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

From Fox News Oct. 19, 2021

Laurie thinks she’s got Angela buffaloed, and then Angela comes back and basically cuts her legs from under her.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2019

They get good stories, because the newspapers get buffaloed.

From Time Jun. 16, 2015

He knows people around the world, and as we say in Wyoming, he won’t be buffaloed.

From New York Times Nov. 30, 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 Adams, Andy




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