brown
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Here, they get cooked with butter, brown sugar, orange zest and salt until glossy and jammy, then folded into a simple sour cream cake scented generously with cardamom.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Palace of Versailles, south of the French capital Paris, appears as an island of trees surrounded by brown fields in these images.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In all, 1,589,577 dozen eggs were covered by the recall, and included both white shell eggs and brown cage free shell eggs under a variety of brand names.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Video footage showed deputies assisting wildlife officials as they carried the tranquilized animal to a brown cage to transport it out of the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I turn sixteen on my actual birthday, and Mom gets me the new swimsuit and the brown calf-high boots I wanted.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Paramount Caviar’s kosher salmon roe adds a delicious salty, briny pop to deviled eggs, hash browns with whipped cream cheese and dill, or toast points with crème fraîche.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
For the $4 breakfast bundle, customers can choose a sausage McMuffin or sausage biscuit, served with hash browns and a small coffee.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Leaving the refuge, the vibrant color palette and moisture give way to muted browns and the returning austerity of desert air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
This year they’re going further, with McDonald’s next month offering deals such as a new $3 and less menu, which includes a McDouble or fries or hash browns, according to people familiar with the plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The mountain was crisp with evergreens, which were luminous set against the browns and grays of shale and limestone.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
People fishing in browner lakes may consider appealing to the senses of the fish that are likely to be in the water.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Mamdani's retort is that he's more like a Scandinavian politician, only browner.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
Melanomas typically look darker or browner than basal cell carcinomas, Connolly said, but patients should bring any lesion they’re worried about to a dermatologist’s attention.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
Cook at 350 to 375 degrees — the higher temp will get you a browner, crisper top — for 40 minutes to an hour, depending on your dish and the ingredients.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
“Definitely red, but make it browner, like turmeric or cinnamon. The color red is supposed to make you hungry.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
“I’m not going to be supportive of defunding cultural events in the brownest city in Orange County and making the public choose between celebrating our culture or giving mutual aid,” said Councilmember Johnathan Hernandez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025
"I'd look at certain celebrities who've got like white decor in the house, I'm like, 'who would choose white? I've gone for the brownest brown so that it hides the dirt," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hug Spot, then look into his brownest eyes.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
In Hawaiian, “maka” means eyes, and Kumu Maka’s are the biggest and brownest.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Sauté onions and garlic in olive oil, add ground chicken and cook until almost browned, then pour in tomato sauce and let everything simmer.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
The skirt steak gets seared first until deeply browned, leaving behind savory crisped bits on the bottom of the skillet that become the foundation of the entire dish.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
The dish, made of browned ground beef, rice and basically whatever else you have on hand, has inspired hundreds of posts since January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Vegetables that steamed instead of browned, their edges soft but not transformed.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
I asked the moment I walked out the gate at Reagan Washington National Airport, my hair still in fuzzy summer braids, skin browned by the southern sun.
From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson
Even zoomed-out satellite imagery of western France shows a striking increase in the browning of land compared to last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Brook trout abundance was not affected by freshwater browning.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
That browning occurs when PPO reacts with oxygen after the fruit is cut or bruised.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
Potatoes need to be plucked from the ground and handled with care to prevent browning that can mar otherwise perfect chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
The first batch of tikkis is browning nicely.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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