cattle

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Recent Examples of cattle The results were a perfect 50 percent Australian cattle dog and 50 percent collie, a perfectly even mixture that confirmed the owner's original guess. Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 Kayce was able to keep East Camp and is last seen working cattle with his wife Monica (Kelsey Asbille) and son Tate (Brecken Merrill) on the property. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025 Jimmy Novy grew up on a farm with corn, cattle and chickens in Wisconsin’s smallest municipality. Tom Kertscher, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025 Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 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
  • Elephants moved silently in the distance, and a herd of impala bounded across the plain, skittish but unconcerned with us.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The NewCows the drones brought us were odd animals, and even odder once clumped together in a herd.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 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
  • Scrub stains, soap scum, and hard water spots with a damp sponge or soft brush.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 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
  • The Colts’ late owner used to seethe over the fact that his team couldn’t find a way to win a Week 1 game, but the Colts’ 11-year streak — the second-longest in NFL history heading into Sunday — is now over thanks to a 33-8 rout over the Dolphins.
    Zak Keefer, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Jones made Colts coach Shane Steichen's controversial decision to bench Anthony Richardson look brilliant in a 33-8 rout of the Miami Dolphins, the Colts' first Week 1 victory since Andrew Luck was quarterback in 2013.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 8 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 14 Sep. 2025.

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