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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a grammatically valid sentence used as an example of how homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It first featured in Steven Pinker's 1994 book The Language Instinct and has since been repeated throughout the Internet.

The sentence uses three possible meanings of the word "buffalo":

  1. An American Bison
  2. Buffalo, New York, the second-largest city in the state of New York
  3. A verb meaning to confuse, deceive, or intimidate

Rewritten using these definitions, the sentence could be rewritten:

Bison from the city in New York, whom other bison from the city in New York intimidate, themselves intimidate yet further bison from the city in New York.
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