crisp
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The chicken pieces cook up light and crisp, while the sauce is a little bit of sticky heaven.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Spoon that over a hot scallion pancake for a delightful contrast of crisp, creamy and savory.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Separately, Mondelez agreed to acquire Undercover Snacks, a line of quinoa crisp snacks, for undisclosed terms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Emily St. John Mandel touched down in Los Angeles just hours before she arrived at Botanica in Silver Lake, shirt crisp, eyes bright, not a hint of jet lag in sight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Poppy wiped her tears just as two of her coven members walked up to them, hooking their arms in Poppy’s, their luxurious purple capes billowing softly in the crisp morning breeze.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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The Dodgers went up against an even crisper version of Sale than usual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Sucking out excess humidity makes the air feel crisper and cooler without toggling the thermostat.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
There’s no reaching past something sticky or spoiled, no quiet dread lurking in the crisper drawer.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
Then another kind of knock sounded over the first dull, bumping knock-a sharp tap-tap, and another, much crisper voice said, "Miss Greenwood, your friend wants you," and I knew it was Doreen.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Aduba, 42, confirmed the news Sunday on Instagram, sharing a video that showcased the crispest of baby onesies along with a gentle “ta-da!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
The crispest quote of the modern political era was written in 2018 by a man named Frank Wilhoit.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
For the crispest presentation, serve cherries on ice.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2022
Find a star and bring it in and out of focus until it is the smallest, crispest dot of light that you can make it.
From The Verge ● Jan. 26, 2022
I found the crispest dollar bill and folded it into my letter.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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"We get to see what people are eating, sometimes you get cigarette ends and it's interesting to see what crisps people are eating."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The marauding monkeys brazenly snatch ice cream, cakes and crisps from unwitting tourists in addition to gobbling abandoned leftovers from bins or food directly offered to them.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
The meat browns, the tortilla crisps, and when you flip it, everything holds together like it was always meant to.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
All the kids would play out in the street every day, you could walk into any neighbor’s house and they would feed you or you could get a packet of crisps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
"Little did I know," he said, "that one of my rescuers' wives was carefully feeding the Alsatians with potato crisps to divert their attention from the car."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Into a casserole dish it went, where the top crisped and the center went soft and savory.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Each berry came out as a single large, flat flake that crisped when baked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Leftover pizza gets cut up, crisped on the stove and mixed into scrambled eggs—a remnant from Duggal’s college days that she has christened “pizza eggs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Toss with rigatoni, add crisped pancetta or bacon if you like, then shower with goat cheese.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025
They were shaped like a man’s fingers when they are crisped like claws.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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Once the cooking area is cleared, Brown pours olive oil into a pan and shows Prado her trick for crisping tortillas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
The cake's surface will look different if it is soaked in syrup, making it moist and sticky, or if it is put in the oven, crisping and darkening the surface.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
They get smash-grilled, crisping the exterior with Maillard-reaction goodness; at assembly, an extra slab of house-cured pork belly adds more smoke, salt and fat.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Here, we start by crisping cured Spanish chorizo, which gives the dish smokiness.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2022
She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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