yak
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Oaklee Garner, 3, and her grandmother Julie Pettee look at the yak bulls at the Pettee Ranch in Fairplay, Colo. 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Yak bulls at the Pettee Ranch, one of the largest yak operations in the country with about 250 head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
This is the roof of the world where traffic gives way to yak herders on horseback whistling to reluctant, grunting cattle, as eagles circle above.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
But you can also find cheese made with milk from other animals like sheep, goats and even water buffalo and yak.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
One swift pinch of an ear, one assertive push behind a knee, and Kevin the yak was down without even entirely realizing that he’d fallen.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
“Ms. Blatt, what do you think the Second Circuit meant when it yakked about … judges not being art critics?” he asked.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2022
They yakked about nothing and everything, except what was around them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
And Donald Trump appeared on some TV show and yakked about his well-being.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
But in all the decades he yakked about the college game, he'd never have as big an effect as he did on the NFL in 1981.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2012
She talked too much, yakked all the time.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
In other instances throughout, she fiddles with her phone while others are yakking away and is always just a bit on the outskirts.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
Concerning groundwater, politicians and water officials have been yakking about recharging the drained aquifers for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
It’s a job of waiting and playing, waiting and playing, sometimes waiting on horse pundits on TV to finish their yakking and then playing.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2022
“But come to think of it, he spent five minutes yakking to her on the porch when she left,” said his father.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
She later moved to Colorado, where she bought more yaks and now has about 30, including a new calf born last week, the first from a female named Inge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Colorado is home to an estimated half of the yaks in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
A genetic adaptation that allows animals such as yaks and Tibetan antelopes to survive in thin air may also point to a new way to repair nerve damage in humans.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
Non-stop snow, instant noodles and yaks: tales of being trapped on Everest.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Most Westerners, however, have a hard time telling any of these shaggy beasts apart and refer to all of them as yaks.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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