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Adjective
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The base is familiar — creamy yolks mashed with mayonnaise and coarse mustard — but the magic is in the mix-ins and toppings.—
Laura Mclively,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026 -
Stir in butter until coarse crumbs form.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The investment is part of the college’s broader mission to support student success and inclusion.—
Santa Ana College,
Oc Register,
25 Feb. 2026
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Every officer and crew member who passed us during our five-day sailing offered a broad smile and greeting.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Feb. 2026
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Engineers inject water to dissolve part of the salt, pump out the salty brine, and are left with an empty chamber underground.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Feb. 2026
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Here are two more stories of the subterranean, one sinister and one salty.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Wasserman rode on Epstein’s plane and exchanged suggestive messages with Maxwell, the files the DOJ released show.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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More disturbingly, some MAGA cultural warriors claimed to be disgusted by Bad Bunny’s suggestive dancing and called for his censorship, harking back to the 1950s, when emerging superstar Elvis Presley was shot by TV cameras from the waist up during his appearance at the Ed Sullivan show.—
Ediberto Roman,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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That wouldn’t be a particularly high threshold to clear in the nation’s preeminent blue state.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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The garden’s Rainforest Conservatory is being transformed into a habitat for thousands of butterflies from around the world, including the electric-blue Instagram star Blue Morpho and the massive Atlas Moth, whose wingspan can reach nearly a foot across.—
Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The list, collected from the FBI's National Threat Operations Center, included numerous salacious allegations.—
Stephen Fowler,
NPR,
24 Feb. 2026
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The salacious charges, all leveled by men, made their way into a criminal case against Ebel, though none of the allegations could be substantiated in court.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Kanto practitioners believe that women cannot participate because, according to Japan's Shinto religion, women's blood from menstruation and childbirth is considered impure for the purpose of religious rituals.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Their inclusion underlines the wider context of the film, provoking the audience to hold these pure and impure images together.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Kelli Bryant, 34, was facing three counts each of child abuse related to allegedly forcing her three children, a 15-year-old boy and a 13- and 12-year-old girl, to live in unbearable, filthy conditions in an apartment on Lydia Lane.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Other parts of the ballpark, including the exterior concourse and entrances, were also impacted by the filthy leaks, which stunk to high heaven.—
Gary Phillips,
Hartford Courant,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Coarse-grained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarse-grained. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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