ground beef

noun

: beef that has been cut into very small pieces

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Goat liver, ribeye, ground beef and a whole raw chicken were outside of proper holding temperatures. Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado july 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2025 Restaurants of the Year 2025: Indianapolis bistro and cocktail bar named one of best in U.S. Sure, paying nearly $30 for something your mom used to make with Barilla, ground beef and breadcrumbs feels kind of insane. Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Even lean ground beef is considerably higher in fat than chicken though, at 10 g of fat in a 3-ounce patty compared to chicken's 3.57 g.11 A 3-ounce lean ground beef patty has 184 calories, about 62 more than the same size portion of chicken breast. Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 2 July 2025 Produced by the American Farm Bureau Federation, an agriculture lobbying group, the survey found that ground beef and pork chops were more expensive — and chicken breasts were cheaper — in Colorado than in other states. Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 2 July 2025 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 16 Jul. 2025.

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