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Recent Examples of fillet
Don’t be afraid to order the fried snapper throats, an accidental favorite that began as a staff meal that made use of leftovers from filleting whole fish.
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Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
Predictably, our fellows were filleted by Republicans, just as Republicans would have been filleted by Democrats.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2026
Not to be missed is any fresh fish Wagner filleted that day.
—Usa Today Network, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Poupart spent the next morning filleting the night’s catch, and preparing the fish for freezer storage to feed his family and community throughout the year.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 30 May 2025
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Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
Predictably, our fellows were filleted by Republicans, just as Republicans would have been filleted by Democrats.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2026
Not to be missed is any fresh fish Wagner filleted that day.
—Usa Today Network, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
Poupart spent the next morning filleting the night’s catch, and preparing the fish for freezer storage to feed his family and community throughout the year.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fillet
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Actor Sam Reid is laced into a pair of skintight black pants, his shoulder-length blond hair braided into Britney-style pigtails and his face and torso covered in iridescent glitter.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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And because of it, braiding is only getting more personal.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Mesquite and acacia trees ribbon the lower elevations, while Douglas firs and ponderosa pine line the upper reaches.—
Staff Author,
Travel + Leisure,
1 May 2026
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Eager to make connections with important people, Kapoor invited mayors to ribbon cuttings and doled outmore than $100,000 in campaign checks from corporate accounts, about half of which went to a political committee supporting a losing candidate in this November’s Miami Beach mayoral race.—
Sarah Blaskey,
Miami Herald,
16 Dec. 2025
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On the power play, Marner crashed into the slot to get a loose puck, and feathered it through a defender onto the tape of Stone’s stick for an easy tap-in goal.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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December 21 - January 19) Inspired to feather your nest?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
24 May 2026
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Both her audition and her callback had fallen flat, but the company must have figured that casting an amateur from hard-luck Butte as Lucetta would make good press.—
Jonathan Franzen,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Rather than merely a stylish shot of Charli, the photograph by Aidan Zamiri figures musician John Cale, fashion designer Marc Jacobs, and film director Martin Scorsese, three men who in some capacity epitomize their respective fields.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
1 June 2026
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Today, that plant is one of thousands on the grounds, a place where monarch ferns frill around the auburn necks of melinonii philodendrons and buttercream and magenta orchids hang like pendants from a jabuticabeira, its spreading copper limbs blistered with purple fruit.—
Michael Snyder Pedro Kok,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
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The collection, which will surely be talked about as the best of the entire week, was an unflinching reminder that a serious depth of femininity — the frilled, bedazzled, artistic kind — should never be mistaken for weakness.—
Gabrielle Korn,
refinery29.com,
13 Feb. 2020
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After a pair of curveballs missed up in the zone, Rathbun laced a fastball that practically dented the right field wall.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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Since at least 1998’s Music Has the Right to Children, brothers Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison have notoriously laced their music with esoteric details that send devoted fans spiraling down rabbit holes, and perhaps no symbol holds a more privileged position in their lore than the hexagon.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
29 May 2026
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Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Portraits of the Hobhouse family, who lived here for more than two centuries, hang alongside tapestry wall trophies in the drawing room, while the teal bar mixes original cornicing with vibrant bamboo chairs.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Mini bars are disguised in Chinoiserie cabinets; bed heads are hand-embroidered; and the toto loo seats in the white-marble bathrooms exude a gentle heat.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Lopez’s rom-com-worthy number was embroidered with a soft palette of cream and lavender florals and green foliage, which wrapped around her bustier, skirt, and back.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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“Fillet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillet. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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