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stockyard

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Definition of stockyard

as in yard

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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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The settlers hurled stones with slings and set the groves on fire, chasing a group of journalists about 80 yards from the scene.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Here are five ways to make your Halloween display friendlier to the creatures that fly, slither and scurry through your yard.

— Katie Koschalk, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026

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Recovered materials will serve as livestock bedding and fertilizer onsite, making those outputs part of the feedlot’s operations alongside gas production.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Days of heat, high humidity, a lack of wind and cooler nighttime temperatures created a dangerous mix, according to Warren Rusche, a South Dakota State University Extension feedlot management specialist.

— Meghan O'Brien, States Newsroom, 13 Aug. 2026

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After the Palisades fire, the ranch began hosting weekly community potluck dinners for anyone who lost their home.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Another image — Jessie riding a real horse — helped inspire the ranch setting and a new character, Blaze.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

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