oxen

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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

Musk oxen and snowshoe hares inhabit the base perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Another bunch of dudes and a bunch of oxen got it into a cart, in one piece this time.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024

The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the arctic tern soar back from their long journey south and the musk oxen wade north.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

“The price of one of Min’s vases—two oxen, a horse, and your first-born son!”

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park