goose
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The meat has been described as tasting like a cross between kipper and steak or "salty goose" and, less flatteringly, as "rotten leather and fishy beef", external.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
While the next men’s World Cup, FIFA’s biggest golden goose, is still four years away, the consequences of a European boycott would have been felt immediately.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Meta has long relied on that golden goose to fund its other ventures, from smartglasses to videoconferencing devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Rawlence explained that although waterfowl fossils are abundant at St Bathans, goose remains are much less common.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Scared and confused, the young goose fluttered up to a tree limb just as two hunters emerged from the bushes.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
The Scot was asked to speak to the players before the tournament in Gleneagles by team captain Paul McGinley, where he recounted the story of the geese.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Eddie Jones has revealed an interesting method he uses to coach his Japan side - watching videos of geese fly in formation.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
A Smithsonian Institution lab found that a flock of Brant and Canada geese “impacted” the rotor blades and the horizontal stabilizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
"An eyewitness account of about 20 'geese' taking flight and heading toward the river just minutes before a loud bang was heard corroborates geese in the area shortly before the crash."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
They sat together, and the geese explained what they’d seen.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
But I dug how Cretton gooses our spidey senses with dramatic sound effects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Presprouting gooses corms into an even earlier bloom.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
The experimental vaccine takes an entirely different approach: It gooses the body's preexisting supply of pathogen-gobbling immune cells called macrophages, which engulf and digest bacteria, fungi and other bad actors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
Teaching the workshop in the special, she gooses jokes out of her students by digging into their lives.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
At first I thought them Canadians also done something to the wild gooses and ducks sitting in the water so’s they don’t tear ’way once you come near ’em the way them down-home birds do.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Cycling, like other endurance sports, has undergone a revolution in carb-taking, a trend that also goosed mind-bending breakthroughs like the recent sub 2-hour marathons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
After several months waiting on a review from Los Angeles County Building and Safety, she said she goosed the process along by sitting in the county office on Woodbury Avenue during her lunch breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
"You're totally goosed the next day and then the day after that is a battle as well," said Murray, whose brother Andy finished an Australian Open match last year at 4am.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
Still, even if that report is goosed up, just look out the window.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The bed sagged, the TV picture jumped as if it were being mercilessly goosed by an electronic component, and my door didn’t lock.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
The kids took to TikTok and Instagram to dissect every awful thing Banks and the rest did in the name of goosing ratings, with many wondering why its audience barely blinked at its endless exploitation.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
It’s a key point on Wall Street because cuts to rates would release pressure on the economy and the financial system, while goosing investment prices.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Walters agreed but wanted to revamp it by changing the name, goosing the program’s academic tone and embracing discussions of more personal interest to viewers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
Parton gives the hoary tune new life by flipping the gender of Rodgers’ lyric — she’s a “lady muleskinner” — and by goosing it with a hurtling rock-and-soul rhythm track.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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