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purees

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variants or purées

present tense third-person singular of puree

as in chips

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Starling Marte mashes one The hometown fans, who appeared to be outnumbered among the 24,225 at The K, had something to cheer in the fourth inning.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.

— Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026

Definition of mashes

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That line slices the plane into two halves, one of which will contain two corners of the outer triangle (the bottom half in the figure below).

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
You may already be accustomed to changing channels frequently since the NFL eagerly slices up its schedule across multiple networks.

— Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of slices

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Consider two investors, one who invests $7,500 at the beginning of the year, and another who chops it up into $288 biweekly investments.

— Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
The proposal chops $150 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which battled against the largest budget cut in last year's negotiations.

— JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of chops

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After seasoning the steak, Jade grates cheese as Giada stirs the pasta, accidentally dropping it into the bowl.

— Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
This beloved Microplane zester is made from stainless steel and designed with a unique tooth set that grates hard spices, citrus, cheeses, and more as smooth as butter.

— Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026

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