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Recent Examples of cattle
Some focus on fishing in the ocean or among the mangroves, others on herding zebu cattle, and still others on harvesting resources from the forest.
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
These can be quite like the original rodeos, informal competitions among ranch hands, who even after long days spent branding or driving cattle couldn't resist showing off their skills.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
For Texas Roadhouse, where beef is the backbone of its menu, any relief would be welcome after feeling the undeniable pressure of an over 20% rise in cattle prices this year.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Hundreds of them were on hand this week to primp and pamper more than 2,500 cows competing at what is widely considered to be the Westminster Dog Show of the cattle world.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
These can be quite like the original rodeos, informal competitions among ranch hands, who even after long days spent branding or driving cattle couldn't resist showing off their skills.
—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
For Texas Roadhouse, where beef is the backbone of its menu, any relief would be welcome after feeling the undeniable pressure of an over 20% rise in cattle prices this year.
—Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Hundreds of them were on hand this week to primp and pamper more than 2,500 cows competing at what is widely considered to be the Westminster Dog Show of the cattle world.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cattle
Noun
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Hundreds of companies are a disorganized rabble.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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Back in Jasper, take Highway 74 through Ponca and Compton, past elk herds, peekaboo river views, and dozens of waterfalls and bluff-top overlooks.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 Oct. 2025
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Learn more about Kentucky's early history at the park museum, and see active salt springs and the bison herd.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Add in moisture and soap scum, and kitchen sinks can get pretty disgusting.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Oct. 2025
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Try a foaming bathroom cleaner for soap scum (choose one without bleach, which could discolor brick) or make your own cleaner with borax.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Remove the 45-3 rout of FCS-level Bethune Cookman, and the numbers are 71-16 in the first half and 66-49 in the second half.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
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Dallas wide receiver Ryan Flournoy more than doubled his career numbers in the Cowboys’ rout of the Jets in New Jersey.—
Kevin Cusick,
Twin Cities,
12 Oct. 2025
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The movement of aid has increased through Israel’s border, but on a scale that Palestinians say falls short of the needs of a destitute populace.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
19 Oct. 2025
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That’s where the actual populace is.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
13 Oct. 2025
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The film and his character struck a chord with the Chinese public and Su saw his acting career blossom, going on to feature in several other films and television series.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
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If the war truly has come to something like an end, how will the American public remember it?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Cattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cattle. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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