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Recent Examples of stodge
Dean’s is part of a wave of restaurants—Sailor, Lord’s, Dame—that have pointedly reframed British gastronomy for a New York audience that perhaps believed too readily in the myth of English stodge.
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Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
In the oven, the zucchini gave enough liquid to finish cooking the rice, and the cream was a more delicate binder than roux, which so frequently turns a gratin into stodge.
—New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
In the oven, the zucchini gave enough liquid to finish cooking the rice, and the cream was a more delicate binder than roux, which so frequently turns a gratin into stodge.
—New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stodge
Noun
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There’s no old fogey-ness to Lorne.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2026
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For the benefit of us old fogies?—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One only has to think about the British fight against Nazism to be reminded that it was made of imperialists, constitutionalists, stick-in-the-mud aristocrats, and the socialists who first helped put Winston Churchill into power and then five years later helped push him out again.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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But opposing him is Stagg, a Scottish, stick-in-the-mud academic (which is saying a lot by most weather men’s personality standards), who insists on making the team’s joint recommendation exclusively using the current observational data available to Allied forces.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Among the highlights is a chance to set foot on the coral island of Rurutu, with troglodyte caves and hiking routes.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Jan. 2026
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Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Sep. 2019
Noun
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In a new study published in PLOS, researchers analyzed 161 fossils with a new rapid and non-destructive protocol, based on stimulating the bone remains with an external energy source, called luminescence.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
6 June 2026
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Previously, a microraptor fossil was found with the bones of a bird inside of its rib cage.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
Noun
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For someone who’s constantly on speakerphone, Tommy sure is a fuddy-duddy about using it correctly.—
William Earl,
Variety,
30 Nov. 2025
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To some, Superman is a fuddy-duddy in a cape.—
Ken Makin,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 July 2025
Noun
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On Thursday, June 11, the Poor Things actor, 58, paid tribute to his other half, 53, on Instagram with a throwback photo from their wedding day and a more recent snap.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
PEOPLE,
12 June 2026
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In honor of her eldest child's birthday, Meghan shared a throwback photo of Archie as a baby and another more recent picture of him and his younger sister wading in water together in an Instagram post on May 6.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
Noun
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Other words in Parikh's winning round included fais-dodo, cywyddau, pohutukawa, émeute, natchitoches, and taurokathapsia, per the video on Facebook.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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The company now hopes to use the technology to bring back extinct birds, including the dodo and the giant moa.—
Devika Rao,
TheWeek,
28 May 2026
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“Stodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodge. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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