as in cheese
that which is of low quality or worth
it's shocking that an esteemed newspaper like this one would publish such tripe
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Recent Examples of tripe
Beef tripe is available cleaned and pre-shredded at many Asian grocery stores, usually in the freezer section.
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Jen Lin-Liu, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
Basic meat options like fajita, chicken and pastor are priced lower, while tripe, barbacoa, tongue and chicharrón cost more.
—Jhair Romero, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026
Bartlow is serving exquisitely simple Spanish fare, like snacky bowls of pork belly chicharrones with Marcona almonds, slices of potato tortilla, salty anchovy fillets with butter, crocks of salt cod, and platters of morcilla (tripe).
—Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Feb. 2026
All the meats were succulent, but the surprise standout was the tripe, which was tender, snappy and almost feathery in texture.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 27 Nov. 2025
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Jen Lin-Liu, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
Basic meat options like fajita, chicken and pastor are priced lower, while tripe, barbacoa, tongue and chicharrón cost more.
—Jhair Romero, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2026
Bartlow is serving exquisitely simple Spanish fare, like snacky bowls of pork belly chicharrones with Marcona almonds, slices of potato tortilla, salty anchovy fillets with butter, crocks of salt cod, and platters of morcilla (tripe).
—Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Feb. 2026
All the meats were succulent, but the surprise standout was the tripe, which was tender, snappy and almost feathery in texture.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 27 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tripe
Noun
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Each board comes with spread containers, bowls and a cheese knife.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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There's enough melty cheese and creamy marinara sauce for every bite of chicken.—
Phoebe Evans,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Why wouldn't you if your press conference du jour was a junk fees settlement with the HungryPanda delivery app?—
Marcia Kramer,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Kate Bowler examines the appeal of junk.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth.—
Caroline Fraser,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Tripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tripe. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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