as in meat
animal and especially mammal tissue used as food
eats no flesh of any kind, only fruits, grains, and vegetables
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Recent Examples of flesh
Since a mandoline’s blade is fixed to the tool’s body, doesn’t come into contact with cutting boards and generally isn’t used for removing hard, woody flesh, mandoline slicers don’t need to be sharpened nearly as much as most knives do.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Pratt & Whitney union votes to approve new contract, end strike
CT health workers found a man so ill his flesh was falling off.
—Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2025
Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
Importantly, the rogue narrative of sharks gaining a taste for human flesh pre-dated Jaws, and was invented largely by an Australian surgeon, Sir Victor Coppleson, in the 1950s.
—Chris Pepin-Neff, Scientific American, 26 May 2025
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Pratt & Whitney union votes to approve new contract, end strike
CT health workers found a man so ill his flesh was falling off.
—Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2025
Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 27 May 2025
Importantly, the rogue narrative of sharks gaining a taste for human flesh pre-dated Jaws, and was invented largely by an Australian surgeon, Sir Victor Coppleson, in the 1950s.
—Chris Pepin-Neff, Scientific American, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flesh
meat
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This is the reason many food safety experts agree that rinsing raw fish and meats isn’t a good idea.—
Stacey Lastoe,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
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Pick up a few bottles of extra-virgin olive oil to have on hand for making salad dressings, cooking meat or fish, and drizzling over vegetables.—
Heather Riske,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 June 2025
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“Flesh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flesh. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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