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Recent Examples of pateIts menu includes a cheeseboard, chicken salad sliders, mushroom pate, Caesar salad, marinated olives and more.—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 5 Feb. 2026 Just recently, Pera put a smooth mushroom pate on Coltivare’s menu, blanketed in a downy fluff of truffles.—Aviva Bechky, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026 Speaking of pates, Dunk also visits the blacksmith, Steely Pate, who offers to sell him armor for 800 stags, or cheaper armor for 600.—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026 Young will be on the main stage Friday in the expo center demonstrating the technique behind eclairs, profiteroles, and other pate choux pastries.—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 2 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pate
While building the institution, architects discovered that buried under it was one of the largest and best preserved tzompantli, or wooden rack, displaying over 650 human skulls thought to have been sacrificed in the 15th century, during Aztec rule.
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Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
11 May 2026
The boy suffered several injuries, including a concussion, skull fracture, broken wrist and fractured femur, prosecutors said.
Many of the city’s buildings, including the historic City Hall, were crafted in the style of Moorish architecture with domes, minarets and outdoor staircases.
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Joshua Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2026
Under the seventy-five-foot dome, Archivist Wayne Grover took formal custody of the Declaration.
The chef Gregory Gourdet, the son of Haitian immigrants, approaches France from the view of the colonies, moving from Vietnam to Louisiana but ever circling back to the Caribbean and its wealth of plantains, salt cod, Scotch bonnets, pikliz and not-so-humble rice and beans.
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Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
Beer, bacon, jalapeño chiles, and chili powder give baked beans a spicy, smoky kick worthy of the Lone Star State.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
11 May 2026
Despite getting demoted from protagonist to fatality victim, Tan hints that he might not be done with Mortal Kombat — even if Cole and his now-two-dimensional noggin are.
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James Grebey,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
Justin Brazeau skated over to the Penguins captain and rubbed the back of his noggin for good measure.