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buffalo

[buhf-uh-loh] / ˈbʌf əˌloʊ /


















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People visit these structures, known as pandals, where Durga is often depicted slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasura.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The festival coincides with Vijayadashami, celebrated in eastern, southern and other parts of India, to honour goddess Durga slaying the buffalo demon Mahishasura.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

True, in the nearly two decades that she’s been creating plush figures, she’s produced charmingly minimalistic foxes, cats and buffalo fit for a nursery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

This super fragrant, flavorful dish features slow-cooked, fall-apart-tender buffalo in a curry with notes of clove and nutmeg.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The buffalo grass around Perilee’s house was tall but thick as moss; I had no trouble picking up the tracks of three barefoot children.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Another woman, Goma Pandit, said she had lost her buffaloes and all her other cattle.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Ramaphosa said the cash came from the sale of buffaloes.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Faced with poaching and the gradual destruction of their natural habitats, big mammals have largely disappeared, according to the survey which underlined the need to protect chimpanzees, buffaloes and elephants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

It has some of the fewer than 100 remaining critically endangered mountain bongos in the world, alongside rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards and others.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

"We've been entertaining some Buffalo friends of Mrs. Antolini's . . . Some buffaloes, as a matter of fact."

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

Yala National Park, located in the country's south-east, is one of Sri Lanka's most popular wildlife parks, home to a high concentration of leopards, elephants and buffalos, among other animals.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

"The Ministry will contribute 723 animals comprising 30 hippos, 60 buffalos, 50 impalas, 100 blue wilderbeast, 300 zebras, 83 elephants and 100 elands," the Namibian Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism said in a statement.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024

This includes the taurine cattle found primarily in Europe and temperate areas of Asia; indicine cattle, or zebus, found primarily in India and tropical areas of Asia; and water buffalos in East and Southeast Asia.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

For now, the county has told people to use bottled water for all their needs or to fill jugs at tankers called water buffalos, which have been brought in near the burns.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023

In the fields, gray buffalos and brown cows graze lazily on the grass.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

When was the last time you looked at the exquisite list of synonyms for the word “baffled”? They may be among the best in the English language: puzzled, nonplused, discombobulated, flummoxed, stumped, fogged, wildered, buffaloed.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

"Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites," he said.

From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021

Laurie thinks she’s got Angela buffaloed, and then Angela comes back and basically cuts her legs from under her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2019

“You probably could have buffaloed people 10 years ago,” said Sassa.

From Time ● Feb. 18, 2015

Despite this, Dasch confidently assured them that he had "buffaloed" the man.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

When it comes to buffaloing the opposite side, that's my long suit.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams


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