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Rachel Cortez,
USA Today,
4 July 2026 That is far smaller than the 2025 outbreak that killed millions of commercial poultry.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026 The 2025 outbreak was HPAI, and that’s the strain that continues to worry veterinarians and poultry scientists.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026 Prices hit record highs last year amid an avian flu outbreak that decimated the country's poultry flocks.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for poultry
Word History
Etymology
Middle English pultrie, from Anglo-French pulletrie, from pulleter poulterer, from pullet chicken — more at pullet
Middle English pultrie "fowl raised for food," from early French pulletrie (same meaning), from pulleter "one who raises poultry," from pullet "chicken" — related to pullet