yak
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Daniele Garner brushes a yak at the Pettee Ranch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Namgyal worked in Alaska, New York City and finally Colorado, the place most resembling Nepal and the epicenter of yak ranching in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
That old man could yak a mile a minute.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
Mr. Hofacket yakked away as my vision gradually returned.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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In the words of the late great Marty DiBergi: Enough of my yakking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
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
Ryans considered starting a business, devoting himself to the clergy, finding a job yakking about football or .
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2023
Grandma Sands and Momma would get yakking to each other and we could only understand half of the things that they said.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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When she moved to rural Alaska to work in a clinic, Higdon bought a few yaks in the town of North Pole and started a trekking business.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Namgyal and his wife were raised with yaks.
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
Technically speaking, the great majority of the “yaks” one sees in the Himalaya are actually dzopkyo—male crossbreeds of yaks and cattle—or dzom, female crossbreeds.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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