John Fischer
Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2024
From barbeque sauce to beef jerky, check out these 9 normally sweet products that scaled back on the amount of grams of sugar (no alternative sweeteners necessary).
—Jessie Shafer, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2024
Luckily, foods that contain lysine are abundant and include:
Meat
Pretty much all meats are good sources of lysine, including beef, pork, and poultry.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2024
The Made In stockpot also happens to be cheaper than the All-Clad, leaving you with more cash for expensive mushrooms or fancy beef to use in your soups and stews.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 11 Apr. 2024
San Diego’s food increases are in line with worldwide issues, such as cereal prices affected by the Russia-Ukraine war and beef increases tied to drought in the southwestern U.S.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
A lot of cooking is about generating those reactions, from tossing beef in a wok over high heat to coaxing a Thanksgiving turkey to achieve crisp skin.
—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
The chef bakes the rolls from scratch, stuffing them with beef Milanese, or house made pork chorizo, refried beans, and melted cheese.
—Regan Stephens, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
In separate statements during a Sunday press conference, before any player on the Tigers and Hawkeyes stepped foot on the court Monday night, Reese and Clark set the record straight — there was absolutely no beef between them.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
One being the resurgence of cooking in meat fats, mainly beef fat.
—Fred Thompson, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
Stormy Daniels never thought she’d be involved in the world of politics, in loads of legal debt or beefing with a former reality TV host turned president.
—Marley Malenfant, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
While some have rolled back wetland protections, others have beefed theirs up.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2024
One lesson plan provided as part of the program directs students to beef industry resources to help devise a school menu.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
Add marinade to beef: Place beef in a baking dish or container.
—Pati Jinich, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2024
No, the game's, thankfully, chilled out since then, but fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and rappers gotta beef.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 Jan. 2024
But the added pack that beefs it up to 470 miles is expected to cost $16,000 extra, takes up well over a third of the available bed and must be installed by professionals.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'beef.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French beof, bef ox, beef, from Latin bov-, bos head of cattle — more at cow
Verb
verbal derivative of beef entry 1
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1860, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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English was never the same after the Norman Conquest
“Beef.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beef. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
beef
1 of 2 nounbeef
2 of 2 verb
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