stockyard

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Recent Examples of stockyard But existing as a piece of the local fabric couldn’t stop the 50-year-old American Royal building from deteriorating or make the back payments on stockyard land. Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025 The American Royal’s evolution But existing as a piece of the local fabric couldn’t stop the 50-year-old American Royal building from deteriorating or make the back payments on stockyard land. Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025 Mexican migrants began arriving to work in the city’s stockyards and meatpacking plants as early as the mid-1800s. New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 The stockyards began to decline in the 1950s as the industry became more decentralized, and today the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District is primarily a tourist attraction. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stockyard
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Noun
  • Carrollton Freshman 1,000-yard rusher for the 2025 Class 2A champion.
    Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
  • The top quarterbacks in college football, especially in a play-action vertical offense, are typically sitting around 10 yards on average target depth.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 26 July 2026
Noun
  • Chris Casad worked part-time at a feedlot this winter.
    Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026
  • In Texas, feedlots where Mexican cows were fattened up were hit hard, and that also affected beef supply in the United States.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • This allowed the federal government to more easily zero in on a common culprit that had been consumed, which in turn helped identify the source of an outbreak, such as a specific farm, ranch or distributor.
    Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Everybody loves ranch dressing Of all the American foods that caught on with foreigners during the World Cup — from gas stations like Buc-ees to diners like Waffle House — perhaps no singular item excited soccer fans as much as ranch dressing.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 July 2026

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“Stockyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stockyard. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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