herd
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It became one of several private seed herds that helped restock the continent and bolstered the herd at Yellowstone with 18 animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
By the time Turner died, he owned about 45,000—the largest private herd in the world, and about 1 of every 5 bison in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"At times like this you don't want to be at the back of the herd," said one very senior former Treasury adviser.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
He once told a lobbyist who raised quarter horses that he owned a herd of polo ponies, just to one-up him.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
It was the largest creature of the herd; it had come not from the island but from the sky over the water.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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An Explanation of Herd Immunity from "On Immunity" by Eula Biss
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