dough

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Recent Examples of dough At neighboring Torrey Pines High School, one student business is Sweet & Simple, specializing in edible cookie dough and cake kits. Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025 Roll the dough into small balls and place them on the prepared baking sheet. Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025 While cookie dough sits, preheat oven to 350°F with 1 oven rack in upper third of oven and 1 rack in lower third. Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025 Recipe Tips For Hummingbird Cookies Let the dough to rest for a few minutes before baking; this allows the flour to hydrate and ends in a more tender cookie. Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dough
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Noun
  • Youngkin in 2021 raised $2.2 million in contributions, but the millionaire investor bolstered his war chest with $5.5million of his own money, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.
    Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
  • By juggling school and a job at a lice clinic, one young woman found a way to finance her education Comments Cailin Hawn has worked at a lice clinic for five years in an attempt to make and save money for school.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Since the recent downturn, I have been asked repeatedly about what to do, and whether to sell out and go to cash.
    Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
  • One afternoon, Coogler stopped by a Bank of America to make a sizable cash withdrawal from his account to cover some family expenses.
    Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The coin imploded a month later, erasing billions of dollars in wealth.
    Eric Lipton, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • But this was still just the flip of a coin, essentially.
    Ruthie Ackerman, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025
  • In reaction, investors are bolstering their portfolio defenses, diversifying assets away from the U.S., adding to short-term Treasurys, stocking up on gold and seeking currency hedges amid fear that the risk for both the economy and the stock market is to the downside.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025

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