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[kou] / kaʊ /


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Anthropic has decided to keep its Claude chatbot ad-free, eschewing what has become a cash cow for OpenAI and other Big Tech companies.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Then came illustrated guides purporting to explain how an anxious shopper might distinguish horse meat from cow meat by color, texture, fat and smell.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

When the cow died, Granma published her obituary on its front page, and a marble statue of her was erected.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Instead a heifer, a young female cow, needs two years before she is able to produce a calf.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Imagine you have been sent to sell your family’s cow at the market, but instead you trade the cow for a handful of beans.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

In a small green meadow in the Gredos mountains, west of Madrid, a couple of dozen cows belonging to Juan Ángel Izquierdo and his family are grazing.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

That is roughly equivalent to the annual methane emissions of more than two million cows.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

They also do farmwork, like harvesting corn, herding sheep, caring for cows and chopping wood.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The lack of water has ravaged grasslands and left ranchers unable to grow enough hay, forcing them to buy feed for their cows at high prices.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Exhibit C, thirty-three minutes in: “Guess how much poop these cows produce in a given day?”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

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

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

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

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

But he insisted that he would not be cowed by antisemitism.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

Of course some of us wept and raged when he once again had to flee some bigger monkey that he had clearly annoyed, but while Punch was certainly cowed, he was never broken.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

Though I respected Reverend Harris, I admired the fact that Mr. Mahlasela would not be cowed by him.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“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

Hurston defiantly writes without cowing to such worries.

From Seattle Times Feb. 27, 2020

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

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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