ox
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Everyone we spoke to agreed with that, praising the talented chefs who sent out all sorts of delicious dishes, from braised ox cheek to mackerel to pork loin, day and night.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
One video showed ox carts transporting artillery pieces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"This time of year there is not much to hunt. So we rely on musk ox meat and skin," Kleist says.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
One of Giovanni's most notable miracles involved healing an ox with a broken leg.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
The ox yoked to it looked fed up and tired, as if it were sick of life itself.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
As a teen, he divided his time between school and driving oxen to till the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
How that happens will depend on whose oxen are gored.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
In her introduction, she swoops over the poppy fields to free the enslaved oxen forced to build the Yellow Brick Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
They put one broken half of Plymouth Rock into the wagon, and the 30 oxen had an easier trip up Cole’s Hill, and they deposited it beside the liberty pole.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
The farm wagon stood outside; the patient oxen, oblivious to how comically out of place they looked on a city street, chewed their cuds contentedly.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
With protectionist trade policies, there's a very strong likelihood that there may be more oxes gored than lambs saved.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2017
Partly it’s cultural inertia, but I suspect it also has something to do with the fact that the companies whose oxes are being gored own some of the nation’s tallest soapboxes.
From Forbes ● Jul. 11, 2011
She jumps on the cart and Wilf snaps the reins on his oxes.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Wid my chyart an' oxes stan'in' 'roun', Her pretty liddle foot needn' tetch de groun'.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
Gentyllmen, have you not hearde of Aesopps dogge That once lay snarlinge in the oxes maunger?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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