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the means or procedure for doing something
her recipe for attaining financial security is to save money, invest wisely, and live well within her means
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Recent Examples of recipe
That’s a bad recipe for a CU team that’s yet to solve its deficiencies in the trenches.
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
This year will see fresh merchandise, including aprons, recipes and new shirts.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
When using this approach, try to find recipes that already instruct you to use an alternative flour.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 25 Sep. 2025
That’s not a very good recipe for success.
—Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
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Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
This year will see fresh merchandise, including aprons, recipes and new shirts.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
When using this approach, try to find recipes that already instruct you to use an alternative flour.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 25 Sep. 2025
That’s not a very good recipe for success.
—Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recipe
Noun
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Experts say women who are unsure should talk with their health care provider about their individual breast cancer risk and the potential benefits and drawbacks of different screening methods.—
Dr. Megha Gupta,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
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The paper is a new way of combining a bunch of ideas that are already out there, but the method hasn’t yet been proven at scale.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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HydroSpread’s approach allows scientists to produce delicate, floating devices that would have been difficult or impossible to make using conventional methods.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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That was the American approach in 2018, even though the players chosen were notoriously wide off the tee, an unsuitable style for a famously narrow Paris course.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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Its strategy was similar to the fight against Mexican cartels and Colombian narcoguerillas.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Each issue is filled with breaking news, deep insights, and exclusive strategies for becoming a better traveler.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Iñaki Gaztelumendi, the screen tourism expert leading the initiative, presented the new methodology during the event.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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The study’s results uphold the methodology used to create the annual EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides and Produce and support its guidance on how people might reduce their exposure to a number of pesticides, Temkin added.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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The performance drew praise for its elegance and control, with judges highlighting Efron’s growing command of ballroom technique.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Using advanced genomic and bioinformatic techniques, the team distinguished microbes that were lifelong companions inside the mammoth, and the ones that showed up later, after death.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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The way people typically die in intersections is often because of head-on and T-bone crashes, which the roundabout design addresses, Bryson said.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, there is a bit of a cost on the world stage to the way that the president presents the United States.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Recipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recipe. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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