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Noun
Cover and cook on LOW until beef is very tender, 7-8 hours. Gretchen McKay, Boston Herald, 15 Jan. 2025 Rap beef is always intriguing, but especially over this last year. Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
The per-serving climate impact of sheep’s meat is also significant, second only to beef. Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024 Ali Wong starred as Amy Lau, a small business owner who has her own marital problems and is beefing with Danny Cho, played by Steven Yeun. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beef 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beef
Noun
  • When in use, the motor produced a slightly audible whistle/whine.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Fittingly, its most art-averse detractors responded with an awful lot of whine.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This practice activates the diaphragm, which is a muscle that sits between the lungs and the abdomen.
    Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This is caused by a muscle that runs from the pelvis to the outside of your lower leg being tight and rubbing on the bone on the outside of your hip.
    Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Many residents at the town hall complained about feeling unsafe at their local Giant or Weis supermarkets, seeing panhandlers, loitering and graffiti in and around these areas.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Some of the agency’s top Middle East diplomats complained in private that they were sidelined by Biden’s National Security Council.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For its part, Walgreens has not filed a legal answer to the complaint yet, but did issue a short response denying any wrongdoing.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • At first, the school board reacted to the complaints by saying parents could have their children excused from the class when the new textbooks were being used or discussed.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The power of PileMate in Sag Harbor is prominent, especially in wintertime.
    Lauren Carpenter, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Though presidential pardoning powers are absolute, such a preemptive move would be a novel and risky use of the president's extraordinary constitutional power.
    WILL WEISSERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Are we meant to sympathize with this creature as people scream in terror and call it a monster and attack it and scream for it to be shot?
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Ahmad would scream in terror, afraid of something beyond his family’s perception.
    Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Butler’s current seven-game suspension will cost Butler a total of about $2.4 million in salary, although the National Basketball Players Association intends to file a grievance to dispute the suspension in hopes of recouping some of that money.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Despite the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in 2019, remnants of the group and other militias continue to pose threats — with potential for resurgence if political and economic grievances remain unaddressed.
    James Durso, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But there is no big fuss made for them, no extra support, just a gaggle of siblings walking out into a cold, stark parking lot to feel what must be every emotion imaginable, but certainly relief, heartbreak, and anger.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The last time Donald Trump was president, Republican lawmakers eliminated 15 rules with little fuss and not much publicity.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Beef.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beef. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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