ground beef

noun

: beef that has been cut into very small pieces

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Trump has since refused to say which countries would produce the 300,000 metric tons of ground beef. Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026 This decision risks a reduction in the price dairy farmers receive for their cull cows and higher profits for foreign beef exporters, all for a potentially nominal decrease in the retail ground beef price. Esme Murphy, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 And Trump’s priority is to lower costs for inflation-weary consumers ahead of the midterms, just suspending tariffs on imports of up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to bring cheaper foreign meat into the market. Diane Brady, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Kalo said that many grocery stores use only fresh ground beef in the meat case. Dan Mangan,pippa Stevens, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ground beef

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“Ground beef.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ground%20beef. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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