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Wobbly tête de veau, cheek by jowl by tongue, served with an equally wobbly sauce ravigote.
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Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
There are cogent points about white supremacy and environmental destruction cheek by jowl with tangents on R. Kelly, ChatGPT, and the hair-root plexus.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
On a single wall of Florence’s Great Council Chamber, inside what is now the Palazzo Vecchio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were set to work cheek by jowl, both painting battle scenes nearly 60 feet wide.
—Harry Seymour, airmail.news, 2 Nov. 2024
Located in the achingly hip Shoreditch in inner east London, where the city’s financial powerhouses sit cheek by jowl with trendy restaurants, brands and hotels, Boxpark opened at Bishopsgate Goodsyard back in 2011 as a pop-up mall on a five-year lease.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
There are cogent points about white supremacy and environmental destruction cheek by jowl with tangents on R. Kelly, ChatGPT, and the hair-root plexus.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
On a single wall of Florence’s Great Council Chamber, inside what is now the Palazzo Vecchio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were set to work cheek by jowl, both painting battle scenes nearly 60 feet wide.
—Harry Seymour, airmail.news, 2 Nov. 2024
Located in the achingly hip Shoreditch in inner east London, where the city’s financial powerhouses sit cheek by jowl with trendy restaurants, brands and hotels, Boxpark opened at Bishopsgate Goodsyard back in 2011 as a pop-up mall on a five-year lease.
—Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Cheek by jowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheek%20by%20jowl. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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