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Recent Examples of stockyardThe steep bluffs between downtown (which was spreading south from the river) and the West Bottoms, where the train station stockyards and other industries were located, presented a very vertical obstacle.—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025 By 1886 four stockyards had been built near the railroads.—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 Johnson started working at age 6, getting blood out of the overalls of a stockyard working neighbor.—Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 Mars used the inheritance to raise purebred Hereford cattle and to buy a stockyard.—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stockyard
While the majority of American beef is produced domestically, the US routinely imports young cattle from Mexico to fatten up in American feedlots, says David Anderson, a professor and livestock economist at Texas A&M University.
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Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
6 Aug. 2025
Prices of feeder cattle, livestock that is purchased for fattening, were already at a record high, and Arizona feedlots braced for even higher purchase costs.
The senior quarterback completed 13 of 20 passes and threw for 130 yards with three touchdowns in a 49-0 win over MacDonald.
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Christian Babcock,
Mercury News,
11 Sep. 2025
Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to the Hollywood Tow yard Monday afternoon to look into a foul odor emanating from the car, which had been in the yard for some days.
The sisters flee to the ranch to avoid arrest, taking precautionary measures to conceal themselves.
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Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
Jett’s ranch, as well as two properties in Los Angeles County, were transferred to him, and Von Ferdinand also purchased another residence in Los Angeles County, allegedly with money wired from Jett’s bank account.
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City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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