calf
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Nacua was sidelined two games this season because of a hip injury and was also playing through a calf injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Nacua was sidelined for two games because of a hip injury and has been playing through a calf problem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
England are facing a possible change at fly-half, with first-choice Fin Smith struggling with a calf problem and Marcus Smith and George Ford competing to deputise in his possible absence.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
They applied a harmless but uncomfortable heat sensation to the calf, similar to the brief pain someone might experience when accidentally touching a hot stove.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
I’d bring the first calf back to the pen, open the gate, and let the next one out.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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In the 1870s, a Pend d’Oreille Indian named Walking Coyote captured a few bison calves from northern Montana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The observation adds to the small number of documented cases involving deceased calves in baleen whales.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Humpback whale mothers may experience grief when their calves die, a rare observation led by Griffith University and Sea World Foundation has found.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Once farmers and ranchers arrived in California, their stock of calves and pigs and crops were a bear buffet, and that got bears killed much more often than any unprovoked attacks on humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Lily and the other calves suddenly swarmed around Roz and nuzzled her legs.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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