yak
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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
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“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
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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
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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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