corn
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Fire-roasted corn, peas and carrots, mixed vegetables, edamame, spinach and cubed butternut squash: These are all regulars in my freezer.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
I love serving them over rice with whatever vegetables I have waiting in the freezer, perhaps some steamed edamame, corn and shredded cabbage.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Still, some of his favourite moments made it into the show, including actress and model Jerry Hall calling him "smooth like butter dripping off of hot corn".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
How did the corn get associated with Halloween?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
He found an old corn cob lying by the side of the road and started playing with it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
The emperor wore his hat with the corns parallel to shoulders - known as "en bataille" - whereas most of his officers wore their hats perpendicular to the shoulders.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023
Calluses and corns are thickened areas of skin that form on toes or the soles of feet as a result of pressure, often from poorly fitting shoes.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2022
The pills often cause his joints to become stiff and prompt the development of corns, a type of callus made of dead skin - which a doctor in Bismarck freezes off.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 29, 2020
The tooth looked like one of those Halloween candy corns that had been boiled in sewage.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Shelton isn’t a corned beef sandwich at an all-night diner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Danny's Jimmy Nardellos and harissa relish with labneh and mint sounded amazing, and I got a kick out of the notion of going from a Chateaubriand to bologna and canned corned beef.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
It is a far cry from the infamous tour to India in 1993, when the England squad survived on tinned corned beef and naan bread.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2024
I might have a corned beef sandwich at one of the deli spots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
He pulled one of them apart and said, “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Corned beef, on the other hand, is salt cured — hence the corning process.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2022
Hybrid striped bass are fair with spinners, and highly shaky rattle traps corning bait in shallow water.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 21, 2020
You need only start by corning your own beef.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2017
Said he: "When the shingles start corning off the barn roof, you put some new ones on."
From Time Magazine Archive
She could feel the power of the great creature corning off him like waves of heat “I must work till sunset,” he said.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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