as in animal
farm animals (such as cows, horses, and pigs) that are kept, raised, and used by people
a market where livestock are bought and sold
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Recent Examples of livestock
Mary would be working at the Denver Federal Center, a six-hundred-and-twenty-three-acre campus that was originally a livestock ranch and hosted an ordnance plant during the Second World War.
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Studies conducted during this period found that 77% of multistate outbreaks were linked to livestock harboring resistant Salmonella.
—Nneka Vivian Iduu, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
The agency did, however, use the opportunity to reiterate that the wolves captured in British Columbia and released in Colorado this winter were taken from an area without livestock.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2025
Written partially in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern writing system—the tablets contain records of state affairs, blueprints for buildings, maps of canals and accounts of commodities like livestock, fish, barley, cloth and gems.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2025
Studies conducted during this period found that 77% of multistate outbreaks were linked to livestock harboring resistant Salmonella.
—Nneka Vivian Iduu, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
The agency did, however, use the opportunity to reiterate that the wolves captured in British Columbia and released in Colorado this winter were taken from an area without livestock.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2025
Written partially in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern writing system—the tablets contain records of state affairs, blueprints for buildings, maps of canals and accounts of commodities like livestock, fish, barley, cloth and gems.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for livestock
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“Livestock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livestock. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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