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canapé

[kan-uh-pee, -pay, ka-na-pay] / ˈkæn ə pi, -ˌpeɪ, ka naˈpeɪ /




canape


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Scott: I had to prove I could hand someone a canapé.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

This canapé base is a collard blini, layered with a light and airy chevre black-eyed pea mousse and topped with a brunoise of roasted beet, lemon zest and green apple Pop Rocks.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

You are what you eat,” she said, after nibbling on a caviar canapé.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2020

So an “efficient, affordable and zero-waste” canapé was made from cucumber, tomato, mould microprotein, dried anchovy and indian salad hydroponically grown in Clapham.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2019

With another glance at the canapé, Lady Clifford turned towards the doctor.

From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

This company wouldn’t be a snack — it wouldn’t even be a canape — for $4 trillion Alphabet or $5 trillion Apple.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

No one likes the guy who has rattled through his achievements by the first canape, but, equally, no one remembers the person offering nothing.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2016

English celebrity chef Nigella Lawson was pushing a pea-guac-topped canape nearly 10 years ago.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 2, 2015

Thirty minutes before the first canape is delivered, though, she asks for no company in the kitchen: “I’m in concentrated mode,” she says.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2015

She and Peter were in the pantry, deep in the manufacture of a certain sort of canape.

From Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris

“Well, once I saw her, I knew we weren’t here just to eat canapés and see Corvettes. We had to help her.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

No wonder Woodward is still writing all these books; the guy’s just trying to enjoy his canapés, and the country’s top military officer waltzes over to share choice content like this.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024

Hundreds of executives, diplomats and foreign business chambers congregated at Hong Kong’s landmark M+ art museum over canapés and cocktails last month with a clear mission – reinvigorate appeal for the financial hub.

From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023

Vogler suggests that the pandemic might see an increase in finger food: canapés, cheese straws, stuffed potatoes, things that can be enjoyed without sharing crockery.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022

Lyra moved among them offering canapés or smiling sweetly and making pretty answers when they spoke to her.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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