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[kau] / kaʊ /


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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

"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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The crowd expects his office to be bucolic and full of ewes and kine.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

“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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