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yak

[yak] / jæk /


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As for the cheese, it’s traditionally made with Bhutanese yak cheese for a tangy flavor, and increasingly cow’s milk cheese.

From Salon Jan. 15, 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

One of them approaches a vendor selling barbecued strips of yak meat.

From BBC Apr. 16, 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

The domestic animals that were ridden were the horse, donkey, yak, reindeer, and Arabian and Bactrian camels.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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 the words of the late great Marty DiBergi: Enough of my yakking.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2026

Nice peaceful places are ruined by your yakking.

From Seattle Times Jun. 25, 2023

Now the college football country settles in for another week of yakking about whether college football might be in some sort of existential trouble.

From Washington Post Jan. 2, 2022

They met, Wilfert recalls, at a reading in 2005; when Wilfert said “I’m going to the bathroom,” Luker said, “I’m going too” and they sat “in adjacent johns,” yakking.

From New York Times May 2, 2021

“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

Non-stop snow, instant noodles and yaks: tales of being trapped on Everest.

From MarketWatch Oct. 10, 2025

The shipment of animals from Moscow also included two yaks, five cockatoos and dozens of pheasants as well as mandarin ducks, Kozlov's office said.

From BBC Nov. 20, 2024

In addition to blood proteins, the cauldrons also contained traces of milk, particularly from domestic cattle and yaks.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2024

With each step, the bridge shook under the weight of people and yaks.

From Seattle Times Nov. 5, 2023

Farming is difficult in the high, cold, steep-walled valleys, so the traditional Sherpa economy revolved around trading between Tibet and India, and herding yaks.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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