cow
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“It looked like somebody dragged her through a field with a tractor and in the mud with cow pies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Although that is much slower than an Olympic swimmer, who can travel up to 65 body lengths per minute, it is comparable to the swimming pace of a cow shark moving leisurely through the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
And additional thanks to Lorne Michaels, who knows a ratings/headlines cow when he sees one, even if he doesn’t want to house him in his own barn at the end of the night.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026
But you’re trying to fix the wrong end of the cow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
All she could do was awkwardly defend the cow.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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"And if cows are in better health, we get more milk and they're happier - happy cows make happy farmers."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Developer Gareth McDonald describes FarmDrive as "Facebook for cows".
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The greens on Barra were protected from the cows by fences, and you entered the greens through a turnstile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
On “Heal My Faith,” the rapper who first gained mainstream attention by lighting the pop chart’s sacred cows afire wonders why we can’t all just get along.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
The armored cows have wandered into my line of vision now.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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After the ravages of more than three years of war, it will take more than candy, bubble gum and "al kine camera bag" to supply a decent living standard for South Korea's 22 million people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lampetia in her long gown meanwhile had borne swift word to the Overlord of Noon: ‘They have killed your kine.’
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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
Her other brother, Albert, feels increasingly overshadowed by Viktor and cowed by the demands of the family’s failing farm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Both raptors shrieked and landed suddenly, their heads cowed; a low, rattling growl filled the air as they glanced back and forth.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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“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
“Master Class” showcased Zoe Caldwell as Callas recalling personal sacrifices and artistic triumphs, and cowing the audience with bromides.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2020
Hurston defiantly writes without cowing to such worries.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2020
Some faculty members have criticized the statement as cowing to the legislature and not sticking up for faculty.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2015
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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