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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
All of the suspects were dressed head-to-toe in black, with some wearing hoods and masks.
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Louis Casiano , Brooke Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
20 May 2026
Collins’s main competitors are Derek Dooley, the former head coach of the football programs at Louisiana Tech and the University of Tennessee, and Buddy Carter, another Georgia congressman.
But at least some of the Vesuvian victims probably died instantaneously from the intense heat of fast-moving lava flows, with temperatures high enough to boil brains and explode skulls.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
In that release, MCSO included photos of bones and skulls, presumably of deceased bison, and presumably taken on the Lay Valley property.
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.
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.