as in housekeeper
a female domestic servant
a busy executive who leaves most of the cooking and cleaning to the char
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Recent Examples of char
Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2025
Just avoid overcooking your meat, and scrape off any black char.
10.
—Sarah Anzlovar, Verywell Health, 15 July 2025
Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
One building has extensive charring on a staircase, and both units have severe damage to the attics, including holes that fire personnel cut in the course of extinguishing the fire.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Broiling the pineapple gives it some nice caramelization and a little char to really draw out all the sweetness of the pineapple.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 3 Aug. 2025
Just avoid overcooking your meat, and scrape off any black char.
10.
—Sarah Anzlovar, Verywell Health, 15 July 2025
Verb
Broil in preheated oven until charred and softened, 18 to 20 minutes, flipping garlic halfway through cooking time.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
One building has extensive charring on a staircase, and both units have severe damage to the attics, including holes that fire personnel cut in the course of extinguishing the fire.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for char
Noun
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At the center of the story is Nina Drayton, who, 20 years ago at age 5, was the sole witness to the murder of her sister, Tamara, by Josie Jackson, the daughter of their family’s summer housekeeper and her childhood babysitter.—
Connie Panzariello,
Boston Herald,
23 Aug. 2025
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Among the fictitious board were Taylor’s housekeeper and a bartender.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Burn scars — areas of land scorched by wildfires — are at the greatest risk for flash flooding during the storms, the National Weather Service said.—
Kate Linderman,
Idaho Statesman,
25 Aug. 2025
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The fire is in the same region as the massive Glass Fire that scorched more than 11,000 acres in 2020.—
Jack Moore,
ABC News,
23 Aug. 2025
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But Turtle Bay is no longer particularly desirable, nor are the exceptionally large, often outdated apartments in the building, which not infrequently have warrens of maids’ rooms and stodgy last-century décor (5,000-square-foot-plus five-bedrooms can be had for as little as $5.25 million).—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
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When Ellen doesn’t show up for dinner, her maid, Mrs. Fitzgibbons (!!), begrudgingly tells Colum and Dougal that there’s a rumor she’s been spotted with Malcolm Grant.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2025
Verb
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As much as Tepper would like everyone to appreciate the subtle pleasures of a plain bagel shaped by hand, baked each morning, and finished with just a schmear of good cream cheese, Circles is also very much a toppings shop.—
Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The idea of theater is baked into S&M—which is to say, into the literature that gives rise to the S and the M.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Most of the books were singed but readable, with titles outlined in charcoal and price conveniently obliterated.—
Peter Wortsman
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025
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Images from the scene showed the family's umbrella singed and snapped in half, with other belongings damaged by the lightning strike.—
Kerry Breen
July 5,
CBS News,
5 July 2025
Verb
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Now a searing guitar line held forth, but only briefly before giving way to an elegantly swinging piano and sax, as if the song had walked off the street and into a smoky jazz club.—
Peter Ames Carlin,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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Applying a little to protect the thin skin of your lips from cold winds, searing sun, or any other force that might dry, chap, and crack them feels both common sense and routine.—
Mark Hay,
Popular Science,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Sit down with the employee and ask what actually lights them up.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Elizabeth Hinton has claimed that the inhabitants of the Bronx lit more fires than their landlords did.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Char.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/char. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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