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[kou] / kaʊ /


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Actually, what can be more manly than killing a cow and spreading its fat on your face?”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

“I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy…personally ran over the cow in his car.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

His cash cow: Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, the improvisational comic genius sometimes called the “Mexican Charlie Chaplin.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Three days later, the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal held a protest in Uttar Pradesh state, demanding that the "cow protectors" be freed.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

“Children, have you been walking in the cow pastures? I fear you may need to clean off your shoes.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Yak boosters say the animals leave a lighter hoof-print on the land because they eat one-third to one-half of what cows eat and produce less methane gas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

The remains came from both native and introduced animals, including cows, kangaroos, emus, sheep, pigs, dingoes, rabbits, possums, quolls and swamp rats.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Woolford's cows still come out into the fields in the morning, but by midday they are back in the barns, sheltering from the sun and eating feedstocks that should have been saved for the winter.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

He told me that because animals like cows and bison share a similar fatty acid profile with humans, tallow-based creams are uniquely compatible with our skin.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

People were outside milking cows and shearing sheep, and planting seeds in their gardens.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many a notable came to see the thousands of sleek porkers, fuzzy sheep, velvety kine, clucking fowl.

From Time Magazine Archive

Driving through Virginia to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover saw for himself pastures toasted brown, corn drooping dead on the stalk, lean kine herded miles to water.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But O’Donnell has refused to be cowed by the president’s bullying for nearly 20 years.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Tech was the major driver behind the better-than-expected earnings growth in the first quarter of this year, as well as subsequent upward revisions, so it’s little wonder bulls aren’t cowed.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

But feminists should not be cowed — and not just because this case, a version of which was already litigated in Carroll’s favor, is likely to crumble in court.

From Salon May 29, 2026

In seeking the injunction, Bonta’s office argues that Amazon threatens “dire consequences if vendors do not comply. Vendors, cowed by Amazon’s overwhelming bargaining leverage and fearing punishment, comply,” according to the filing.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2026

Van Riper was supposed to be cowed and overwhelmed in the face of a larger foe.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

“To have the same effect of cowing the Taiwan population, Beijing is forced to be more threatening,” said Ja Ian Chong, a political scientist at the National University of Singapore.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2022

According to the The Committee to Protect Journalists, there are few effective barriers to prevent autocratic governments from using sophisticated surveillance technology to attempt cowing or silencing a free press.

From Seattle Times Jul. 19, 2021

Even as lawmakers, business groups and foreign leaders expressed alarm, senior White House officials showed no sign of backing down or cowing under the blowback.

From Washington Post May 31, 2019

There are signs, too, of new efforts to harness the law to the cause of cowing the press.

From New York Times Nov. 22, 2016

Rather than cowing the students into submission, the arrests stiffened their resolve, and they returned to the streets with renewed conviction.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman




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