as in junk
that which is of low quality or worth
you wouldn't believe the cheese that the movie studio puts out
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Recent Examples of cheese
This simple dinner recipe features the winning combination of creamy ricotta cheese, tingly mint, and crisp-tender peas.
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Lizzy Briskin, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2026
Serve each chicken thigh with some of the orzo mixture, a sprinkle of chives, and some of the remaining Boursin cheese crumbled over top.
—Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Dishes include crab cakes, pan-roasted pork chops, and mac and cheese.
—Lauren Jones, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2026
Fresh produce, crusty bread, and wheels of cheese abound as do open skies and endless stretches of vineyards.
—Alexandra Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
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Lizzy Briskin, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2026
Serve each chicken thigh with some of the orzo mixture, a sprinkle of chives, and some of the remaining Boursin cheese crumbled over top.
—Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Dishes include crab cakes, pan-roasted pork chops, and mac and cheese.
—Lauren Jones, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2026
Fresh produce, crusty bread, and wheels of cheese abound as do open skies and endless stretches of vineyards.
—Alexandra Jhamb Burns, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheese
Noun
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Some of these are arranged into more staid compositions of geometric bands of color, while others bend and bulge into shapes evoking the baroque ruination of junk-yard findings.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Dump the junk; donate the rest to the Goodwill or other donation centers.—
Terri Daxon,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth.—
Caroline Fraser,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Cheese.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheese. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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