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Recent Examples of enchilada
Chicken enchiladas with spicy salsa verde The lunch and dinner menus don’t have either a combination plate or beef enchiladas.
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
Entrees on the menu are a spinach enchilada casserole, a half-pound ribeye steak burger and loco moco fried rice.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Chicken Enchiladas These creamy chicken enchiladas are packed with flavor, thanks to a filling of shredded chicken, cream cheese, and a touch of cumin.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
The restaurant’s lushly landscaped garden is ready to seat as many as 1,000 customers, and the aromas of cheese enchiladas and fajitas—recipes perfected over 89 years—fill the air.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
Entrees on the menu are a spinach enchilada casserole, a half-pound ribeye steak burger and loco moco fried rice.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Chicken Enchiladas These creamy chicken enchiladas are packed with flavor, thanks to a filling of shredded chicken, cream cheese, and a touch of cumin.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
The restaurant’s lushly landscaped garden is ready to seat as many as 1,000 customers, and the aromas of cheese enchiladas and fajitas—recipes perfected over 89 years—fill the air.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enchilada
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Made with a thick slathering of salty, white cheese with a good schmear of guava jam, all encrusted in a buttery puff pastry-like dough, the guava and cheese combo hit sweet and salty in all the right places, though admittedly, the cheese was a little too thick for me.—
Kaitlyn Rosati,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Ready in a mere 15 minutes, the key ingredient that helps this sandwich sing is a schmear of Dijon mustard.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 May 2025
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By this time, Akasha had found a contact willing to sell him jurema bark in bulk.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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Acquired in bulk for pennies on the dollar from hospitals and collection agencies, the debt by its very nature belongs to those least able to pay, so there’s no way to request or apply for the relief.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Peter Senge describes systems thinking as the ability to view an organization as a dynamic and interconnected whole.—
Balmukund Shukla,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Road trips for me had always been about making a whole of the places that lay between two points, of filling in the gaps.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Find the report in its entirety and learn more about this initiative at orkin.com.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 May 2025
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Finally, at the Holistic level, leaders perceive systems in their entirety, integrating opposites, transcending paradox, and innovating by embracing complexity.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Across the United States in immigration courts from New York to Seattle this week, Homeland Security officials are ramping up enforcement actions in what appears to be a coordinated dragnet testing out new legal levers deployed by President Trump’s administration to carry out mass arrests.—
Joshua Goodman,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Treating dogs as child substitutes and seeking out extreme infantile traits in them raises several ethical concerns that have led to the mass breeding of some unhealthy traits over time.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 May 2025
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“Enchilada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchilada. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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