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pickle

[pik-uhl] / ˈpɪk əl /


VERB
preserve fruit or vegetable
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Burgers are available, with accompanying plastic bags that include lettuce, tomato, and pickle, to allow attendees to individually dress their sandwiches.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

I’ll add some capers or a pickle or two, then you have a sandwich for the rest of the day or into the next morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"Everyone loves a pickle, except for the 25% of people that take them off the burgers," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Expanding on his pessimism around the AI trade, Klement told MarketWatch that, in essence, the market put itself into a bit of a capex pickle.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

From the dining-room window where she stood, with the wind in her hair, Rahel could see the rain drum down on the rusted tin roof of what used to be their grandmother’s pickle factory.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Served in a pita, it features European-style fried chicken topped with cold pickles, Levantine tahini and warm matbucha, a slow-cooked tomato-pepper condiment from North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

For example, "I love pickles. I know that if I eat too many pickles I'm gonna feel ill."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

It wasn’t enough to make the dressing taste like pickles, exactly.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

And she includes two pickles, which are packed with electrolytes from the sodium in the brine and traces of potassium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

“Aren’t there any more pickles? I want to bring him a pickle.”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

I took a bite of the buttery Texas toast and the crinkle-cut fries, then dipped them into the creamy, peppery Cane’s Sauce, which tasted something like pickled ranch.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

My first Japanese Wagyu meal at a steakhouse—a 4-ounce rib-eye served with wasabi alongside vinegary dishes and pickled vegetables that cut against the fat—changed everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Giardiniera is my first choice here — jars of it seem to appear at every Chicago market — but think of the filling as a template for whatever good, spicy pickled thing you bring home.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

"We have ham, pickled garlic, tahini, and stinky tofu and liquor. Just below my office is a shop whose speciality is vodka, foie gras and apple in one scoop," says Yan.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Then she called out to Aunt Puss: “Catfish and fried potatoes and onions, vinegar slaw, and a pickled peach apiece. And more of the same for your supper.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

Over in the 6th at Stand, Hungary’s only Michelin 2-star restaurant, executive chef Tamás Széll, in business here since 2018, sets his pickling sites on elderflowers, served with baked kohlrabi, razor clams and green apple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Tools are scattered throughout the studio, including a plumber’s torch for melting glass, crockpots for pickling and a dental tool she uses to stamp her logo, VM, short for Verre Modern, onto her ceramics.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

If you’re looking for more variety, you can try pickling strawberries with thyme, peppercorns and vinegar.

From Salon ● May 23, 2025

"My life changed just from pickling a cucumber," Maddi Neye-Swift told the BBC as she picked up her award for food creator of the year.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

He was reading an article about pickling cucumbers.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi


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