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as in mouthfuls
a small piece or quantity of food
the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel
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as in specks
a very small piece
searching for any morsel of useful information
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as in dwarves
a person of no importance or influence
a morsel like her wouldn't last a week in the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street
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Recent Examples of morsels
Finally, here are five more Weird and Wild morsels from Tuesday’s wild-card marathon.
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Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Create a captivating centerpiece to wow your guests, like a large-format punch served in a whole watermelon or a big pot of Budae Jjigae brimming with Spam morsels and bricks of ramyun noodles.
—Irene Yoo
september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Learn to make mouthwatering morsels, like prawns with kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass or beef empanadas, and let the lush landscapes on the cookbook’s pages inspire your next trip.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
The new morsels are available beginning August 25, just in time for kickoff, exclusively at Walmart.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
Labor Day is not just for soaking up those last morsels of summer sun.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Jayson Stark, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Create a captivating centerpiece to wow your guests, like a large-format punch served in a whole watermelon or a big pot of Budae Jjigae brimming with Spam morsels and bricks of ramyun noodles.
—Irene Yoo
september 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Learn to make mouthwatering morsels, like prawns with kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass or beef empanadas, and let the lush landscapes on the cookbook’s pages inspire your next trip.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
The new morsels are available beginning August 25, just in time for kickoff, exclusively at Walmart.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
Labor Day is not just for soaking up those last morsels of summer sun.
—Izzy Baskette, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for morsels
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But now, the future of Lucille’s American Cafe, a Weston comfort-food institution serving up mouthfuls of nostalgia since 1999, is unclear.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Aug. 2025
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The pattern is a brownish batik produced by specks of tobacco.—
Zuzana Říhová,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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After a few days’ travel, some of the specks landed on a buoy floating in the North Atlantic off the coast of French Guyana.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Visiting the Magnolia properties in Waco, Texas, is a treat for the taste buds—but faraway fans who are craving a Silos Cookie are now able to bring all of the most popular Magnolia bites straight to their own kitchens.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Oct. 2025
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There’s a scene where a hooligan bites the eye out of a police officer during a fight.—
Ed Lavandera,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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To enjoy lamb chops like a local, get your hands a little dirty (no utensils, please) and make sure to bite off the thin strip of meat that attaches to the bone from top to bottom—one of my favorite bits.—
Katherine Whittaker,
Saveur,
9 Oct. 2025
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China placed its big bets on physical infrastructure; the US is instead gambling on bits and bytes.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Your favorite streaming services like Netflix, Apple TV+, Peacock and Amazon's Prime Video are unleashing a host of new movies that run the gamut of genres and tastes.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
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Algorithms prune and shear outliers, molding our tastes into perfectly symmetrical vectors filled with the same familiar superstars — Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake (still).—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Always clean the frames before cleaning the glass so dust and dirt don't get stuck on the panes and all particles are removed.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
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Produced by the slow decay of radioactive particles, which is a natural process that occurs in all rocks, geothermal energy was long considered too expensive and geographically constrained to compete with other renewables.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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Reportedly, the bacterial types suggest the man’s diet included plants and insects.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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Proposals that the lights were swarming insects or birds carrying glowing fungus were quickly debunked.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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The more nibbles there are, the more chances for bacteria.—
Amy Brightfield,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Sep. 2025
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Naylor said the shark bite capital county's shoreline averages 12 to 15 bites or nibbles a year and had seen only four as of late July.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Morsels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morsels. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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