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palate

noun

Definition of palatenext
as in taste

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Recent Examples of palate From the city's wide variety of vegan food to being home to what USA TODAY called Nevada's best restaurant (Esther's Kitchen) for this year, there is no shortage of quality eateries in Las Vegas for every palate. — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 At the very least, Babies could be a good film-festival palate cleanser among the longer, heavier movies that make up much of the TIFF-goer’s schedule. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026 But at a Venice where fun has been in short supply, The Sprial, came as a welcome palate cleanser. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2026 Otherwise, there’s definitely a family-friendly element to the hotel (the whole storybook feel screams childhood), though the food options may be a little bit advanced for a kids’ palate. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for palate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palate
  1. taste
  2. appetite
  3. liking
  4. preference
  5. craving
  6. desire
  7. use
  8. thirst
Noun
  • Manoogian had been collecting art since the mid-1970s with a taste for American paintings.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • This full moon could also bring news regarding an immigration matter, or show up as a peak travel experience that leaves a weird taste in your mouth.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of taste
Noun
  • But with public debt rising and budgets already under strain, governments have little appetite for adding another enormous bill to the public ledger.
    — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The government, unable and unwilling to check their most voracious citizens and appetites, failed to tame the frontier.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of appetite
Noun
  • Content creator Josh Lora, also known as @tellthebees, posted on TikTok that people are trying to rewrite the reality of professionalism to their liking—and that those who bring coffee into an interview won’t get the job.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Through circumstance and timing, DeSantis has used appointments to drastically shape Florida politics — and its judiciary — to his liking, gifting allies the levers of power and the benefit of incumbency.
    — Zoe Millán, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of liking
Noun
  • Wang expects the trade truce to get extended again next year, noting China has a strong preference for external stability before the Communist Party’s 21st Congress next autumn.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
  • For Johnson, that demonstrated how a neighborhood business could understand the culture and preferences of the people surrounding it.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of preference
Noun
  • Although The Love Witch played around 100 theaters upon its 2016 debut, will audiences’ cravings for something different be enough to secure a wide release for The Face of Horror a decade later?
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Needing coffee immediately upon waking and experiencing afternoon fatigue, irritability, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, sleep disturbances, and sugar cravings.
    — Marie Bladt, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of craving
Noun
  • The idea of a child receiving an injection for weight loss strikes at something deep — a desire to let children be children, free from adult burdens.
    — Babak J. Orandi, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • His desire echoes that of his boss, BBC Studios Productions chief Zai Bennett, which is to invest in around two to three of these new-look talent labels per year.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of desire
Noun
  • Potential uses include disaster relief and surveillance The first DARPA Lift Challenge attracted around 480 concept submissions, with 110 teams invited to compete.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • More specifically, ask yourself how your technology use is helping or hurting your social life.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of use
Noun
  • Advanced signs include anxiety, confusion, agitation, hallucinations, extreme thirst paired with panic at the sight of fluids, heavy saliva and aggressive thrashing or biting.
    — The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout the song, water and thirst become metaphors for overwhelming desire, with the singers acknowledging that their connection is powerful enough to extinguish — or ignite — the fire between them.
    — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of thirst

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“Palate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palate. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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