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Recent Examples of fillet
Small fish are harder to fillet.
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Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
Last week, Labrador and his father celebrated Labrador’s recovery by filleting and eating the frozen mutton snapper, lobster and yellow jack that was caught on the day of his injury.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
Fish are electronically stunned unconscious and bled out, then cooled again and filleted mechanically.
—Bill Kearney, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Vegetables are uprooted from the ground, fish filleted, water fetched from a well.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 15 Sep. 2023
Last week, Labrador and his father celebrated Labrador’s recovery by filleting and eating the frozen mutton snapper, lobster and yellow jack that was caught on the day of his injury.
—Uma Raja, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
Fish are electronically stunned unconscious and bled out, then cooled again and filleted mechanically.
—Bill Kearney, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Vegetables are uprooted from the ground, fish filleted, water fetched from a well.
—Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 21 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fillet
Verb
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Then, Taylor Russell and Alicia Keys attended Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book Gala in a two-tiered chignon and braided ponytail respectively.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
28 Apr. 2025
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Loomer and Benjamin effectively braid these threads into a portrait as much of place and community as of a single young woman’s aspirations.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Here’s a peek at the new flavors and some of the ingredients that inspired them: Lemon curd & whey This light and citrusy flavor uses whey as a substitute for lemon juice to make lemon curd that ribbons throughout the ice cream base.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
24 May 2023
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Introduce the color in small doses: a throw on the couch, ribbon on a wreath, trim around a lampshade, or even gift wrap on the packages.—
Savanna Bous,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Nov. 2022
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That this Heat team will almost certainly somehow still end up in the playoffs, technically, certainly would feather any argument against the NBA’s four-team play-in round.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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Politics is transactional, though if another Republican endorsed Graham, they'd be tarred and feathered.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Yet many experts figure the economy will stagnate within a few months and a growing share foresee a recession by the second half of 2025.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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For every challenge an opponent presents this postseason, Minnesota figures to have answers somewhere across its eight-man rotation of starter-quality players.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
1 May 2025
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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
Verb
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Jones and more than 900 members of his Peoples Temple died in a murder-suicide by drinking Flavor Aid (not, as has become the saying, Kool-Aid) laced with cyanide at Jonestown in 1978.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
23 Apr. 2025
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Nearly 4,600 Bay Staters laced up, racing through the eight cities and towns that make up the course.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
22 Apr. 2025
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This hanging egg chair adds both comfort and style to your space and comes in multiple cushion colors, including green, blue, gray, beige, and cream.—
Rachel Trujillo,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Apr. 2025
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The corpses started appearing in the early 2000s, hanging from overpasses with threats scrawled on their shirts.—
Antón Barba-Kay,
The Atlantic,
26 Apr. 2025
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Elliot was dressed in a white and brown onesie with a bunny and two carrots embroidered on top of a pocket for the festive photo shoot.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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Designed to bring some chi-chi to a seasonal tablescape, the collection features plates dusted with pollen-like dots and linens embroidered with bees and blooming tulips, each piece channelling the natural beauty of Daylesford’s Market Garden.—
Felicity Carter,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Fillet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillet. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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