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[yahrd] / jɑrd /


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“Over many, many years, they started bringing their cubs into the yard, and then they started nursing in front of us,” said Joanne Edney-Coray, who with her husband runs the popular Silver Salmon Creek Lodge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Chinese plan to invest in a Highland yard blocked?

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The week Alcaraz died, I went out to the yard to work out.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Last month, Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD challenged Toyota, Nissan and Suzuki in their front yard, launching a pint-sized "kei" car in Japan.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

I stay low to the ground, sneak along the back of Mrs. Jones’s yard until I reach the rear of Dad’s and climb the three crooked cement steps to the door.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Mitchell told BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast the bin lorry's load was expelled about 200 yards from the site of the Union Street fire in March, which began in a vape shop.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Before his goal, the hulking Madjo had earlier planted a free header over from three yards and shot wide, but was a constant nuisance for 11-time Ligue 1 winner and Brazilian centre-back and captain Marquinhos.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

And his arm is pretty good — like, throwing a spiral 67 yards good.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

At TCU, Patterson’s defenses finished No. 1 in yards allowed five times during a 10-year stretch.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

Their attention was fixed a few yards farther on, down the long, dim hallway that led to the first-floor classrooms.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Often on horseback, he yarded and penned cattle.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Atik returned, Miyax told him he did not need to go to the mountains—that a large herd was yarded not far up the river.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

Not a deer trail did they see; probably the animals were yarded for the winter.

From Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock

We also saw to-day dilapidated old yards, where they had formerly yarded emu or wallaby, though we saw none of their wurleys, or mymys, or gunyahs, or whatever name suits best.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Ernest Giles

“You’ve done as I told you, and only yarded at the ends of the twitch-roads, and haven’t hauled to landings?” he inquired.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

The sharp fuss of grown-ups, issued from porches at the rowdy barefoot yarding of neighborhood kids, rises over the chatter of rocking chairs, to contend with manic squeals and out-of-breath laughter.

From Salon May 10, 2024

For example, in northern Wisconsin, researchers have shown that individual does may remain on summer range during mild winters but will move to yarding areas when heavy snows and cold temperatures develop.

From Time Magazine Archive

What triggers whitetails to move to winter yarding areas?

From Time Magazine Archive

Farther south, yarding may occur only during years when the weather is more severe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next morning I was early afield, heading for a ridge where I thought the deer of the neighborhood might congregate with the intention of yarding for the winter.

From Secret of the Woods by William Joseph Long




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