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Recent Examples of cattle
The lower pastures, complete with creek access, have housed cattle, while horses can graze freely in the upper fields.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
The highways stretch out flat, winding around small cattle farms and churches.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
That's because a majority of cattle ranchers in state operate on a cow-calf model, where a permanent herd of beef cows raise calves from birth to weaning before the calves are sold to other operations, including feedlots.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
The proposal regarding Argentine beef, though, has sparked backlash from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, particularly in states with high cattle inventory.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2025
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
The highways stretch out flat, winding around small cattle farms and churches.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
That's because a majority of cattle ranchers in state operate on a cow-calf model, where a permanent herd of beef cows raise calves from birth to weaning before the calves are sold to other operations, including feedlots.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 30 Oct. 2025
The proposal regarding Argentine beef, though, has sparked backlash from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, particularly in states with high cattle inventory.
—Max Rego, The Hill, 30 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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Helm’s valley, though it is being grazed by herds, hunted across by packs and stooped upon from above, seems a bit – dull.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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That's because a majority of cattle ranchers in the state operate on a cow-calf model, where a permanent herd of beef cows raise calves from birth to weaning before the calves are sold to other operations, including feedlots.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Severin, on the other hand, represents the revolutionary proletariat.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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While the superhero bar from the pilot was a dive, this joint is a real shithole, filled all manner of scum and villainy.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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When water, soap, and body oils dry together, especially on glass or tile, soap scum can form easily.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The outcome of the game — a 7-3 Anaheim rout to hand Florida a loss to start this four-game road trip — was bad enough.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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The 85-point margin of victory marked a Hornets program record, surpassing the 71-point, 86-15 rout of San Francisco State in 1974.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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As 39% of the United Kingdom populace struggles to heat their homes, Edelstyn and Powell huddle under blankets themselves, trying vainly to warm up with endless mugs of tea.—
Will Tizard,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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Each district sends two children as tributes to the fight-to-the-death Hunger Games, concocted by the capitol to keep the populace distracted.—
Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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If this year’s March and June get-togethers were learning exercises — including for the staff after Tuchel began work in January — the next two and the one starting today (Sunday) are all about creating an atmosphere the players and the English public can all buy into.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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And to get to play these characters that are layered and complex and multidimensional is really fun — anything where there's a public and a private life, and a secret, and different elements at play, and having to keep different balls in the air is really fulfilling and fun.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Cattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cattle. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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