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Customers can pick three tacos with chicken, beef, seafood or veggie fillings; an appetizer of chips and dip, chicharrones or corn with bone marrow butter; and for dessert, tres leches cake or churros with chocolate sauce.
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Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Don’t miss breakfast, served with handmade flour or corn tortillas.
—Eddie Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks.
—Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
Beware, perennial bachelor's button also goes by names like mountain bluet, corn flower, and basket flower, but all are bad news.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2026
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Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2026
Don’t miss breakfast, served with handmade flour or corn tortillas.
—Eddie Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks.
—Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
Beware, perennial bachelor's button also goes by names like mountain bluet, corn flower, and basket flower, but all are bad news.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for corn
sludge
Noun
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Sewage sludge is a mud-like byproduct created during wastewater treatment.—
Peter Blair,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Feb. 2026
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Those policies range from outright bans to water standards, sludge spreading restrictions and cleanup funding.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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“Corn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corn. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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