enchilada

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Recent Examples of enchilada El Gallo Giro’s menu includes street tacos, authentic enchiladas, quesadillas, burritos and chimichangas. Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 23 July 2025 Instead, Shay pops up occasionally on The Valley as a font of hemorrhoid stories and enchilada recipes, and she was left to share the affair for the first time in My Good Side. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 July 2025 Or feast on the crab enchiladas with coconut, poblano peppers, and corn from Washington D.C.'s El Presidente, served up with a guajillo chili glaze and topped with lime crema and queso fresco. Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2025 Shrimp and crab enchiladas come topped with a creamy guajillo sauce, queso fresco, and crema. Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for enchilada
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enchilada
Noun
  • 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
  • The day’s top seller: the bacon, egg and cheddar sandwich with a scallion schmear.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Christoforous recommended buying in bulk during sales to save money throughout the year, especially for basic supplies like pencils and pens.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And Governor Pritzker’s health department in Illinois is exploring the possibility of purchasing COVID-19 vaccines in bulk directly from manufacturers.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The book functions as a set of nesting dolls, offering stories embedded in stories, a series of overlapping detours and evasions that ultimately coalesce as a vivid and coherent whole.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Germain McMicking—Neon Advertisement Together is a squishy-gross body-horror comedy about the ways longtime couples sometimes meld sensibilities so completely that one partner or the other may feel subsumed by the whole.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chaos was just beginning, as both schools traded scores the entirety of the first half.
    Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • And it’s been that way for the entirety of the 21st century.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the end, there was a compromise and two start lines, one for the athletes, another for the mass runners, 50 yards behind.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On social media, Marquette announced that all athletic events for the weekend would be canceled, and a special mass for the school community was held on Saturday afternoon.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Enchilada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchilada. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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