cattle

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Recent Examples of cattle Raised on a cattle farm and homeschooled, music has always been central to their lives, evolving from family singalongs to songwriting. Bryan West, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025 This is beautifully marbled, deeply beefy, strikingly umami meat from older cattle. Andy Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Local people rely on lions to generate tourism income, and in return big cats feed on old cattle abandoned by local herders, wrote Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, the former dean of Wildlife Institute of India, in an academic paper published last year. Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025 During the 1880s, the brothers lived here and made their livelihood rustling cattle and horses, while at the same time disposing of unsuspecting ranchers who wandered too close to their hideout. Patti Nickell, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cattle
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Noun
  • There was little-to-no doubt Jurgen Klopp’s side were going to defeat Ralf Rangnick’s under-interim-management rabble that day.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement From start to finish, pure madness, amid a rabble that never calmed, never quieted, never quit.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
    Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • As is the case with the aesthetics of people, exquisite lines can be found on patrician and proletariat cars alike.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The five desert sheep below me were part of the San Andres herd, which has been brought back from near extinction by good conservation.
    Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The Nashville Zoo is mourning the loss of Nasha, an 11-year-old Masai giraffe, the matriarch of its herd.
    Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Which is to say, the people in the streets weren’t riffraff running amok but activists with aims.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Sometimes Evie imagined the land, the world, the city around her as a cartoon neighborhood, the houses’ edges elastic like balloons, their walls filling up and bloating and then, all at once, popping: ejecting out the riffraff and trash in a huff.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, food particles, grease, soap scum, and even mineral buildup can collect inside your machine, affecting its performance and leaving your dishes less than spotless.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Disneyland has dropped reservation requirements for the once wildly popular Oga’s Cantina six years after the wretched hive of scum and villainy opened to hourslong standby lines that forced the Anaheim theme park to hastily install a reservation system.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • German bonds, which benefited from a flight to safety earlier in the year , joined the rout, with the 30-year bund yield notching a 14-year high.
    Jenni Reid, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Senior running back Carter Grabowski returns the opening kickoff 94 yards for a TD, then runs nine times for 100 yards and TDs of 45, 1 and 20 yards in Kaneland’s 44-7 rout of Rock Island in a game interrupted for an hour by a lightning delay.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some people seem to assume that AI is far beyond our world, and not just computers, data, and algorithms -- see my analysis of how low AI-literacy impacts the populace, at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • If Democratic messaging caters to the populace more concerned with the first objective than the latter, Hernaiz suspects their appeal will continue to wane.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With a new, sobering jobs report out Friday, some current employees at the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are seeking to reassure the American public that the government's economic data is reliable and worthy of their trust.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Musk and the president had a public falling out earlier this summer.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Cattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cattle. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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