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How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

They don’t really care about “the reasons” or how others were experiencing America, whose ox the past few decades was being gored.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Last weekend, an 83-year-old woman from South Carolina was gored by a bison that was defending its space, park officials said.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

A bison charged and gored an Arizona woman at Yellowstone Park in the first bison-human attack in 13 months.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023

We spent the morning talking and looking at examples of trees gored by shedding antlers and branches snapped by lumbering bodies.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline



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