knead

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Recent Examples of knead The official tasting notes describe aromas and flavors like honeyed bread, wheat crust, clove, and freshly kneaded dough on the nose and palate. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025 Once solid, remove butter from the whisk, knead it briefly (working quickly to prevent melting), then wash it in the ice bath until any excess liquid from the butter is removed. Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 Gently knead together any scraps, being careful not to overwork the dough. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025 Food processors chop your vegetables, knead your dough, grate your cheese and complete a variety of other jobs. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for knead
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  • Taken together, the answers provided a sort of battle-damage assessment of the current moment, the kind undertaken while everyone is still patting themselves to figure out which parts survived the explosion intact.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
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    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
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    Big Think, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
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    Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
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    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
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  • Unlike many recycling approaches, this method works across multiple plastics and even mixtures, producing gram-scale yields that point to real-world feasibility, as per the release.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
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    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • This extensive duration was necessary to accurately model the material’s behavior over the long operational life of a nuclear facility.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The positions of the heavenly bodies could be modeled exquisitely using the geocentric model, in a way that the heliocentric model could not reproduce.
    Big Think, Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Knead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knead. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.

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