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cream

[kreem] / krim /




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“It’s just the category is under some pressure relative to switching out of cream cheese into cottage cheese and others. And that’s very addressable, but it’s going to take just a little bit of time.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

Now the cheese is being used as a spread and appearing in recipes for everything from scrambled eggs to ice cream.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

Next to it was a dairy store where cream cheese was cut from large slabs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Tables are set up as if diners are about to arrive, while the walls are lined with slices of pizza, bottles of wine, ice cream and cicchetti, the small snacks served in Venetian bars.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Ice cream drips down my wrist and onto my shorts.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

D’Ornano oversaw product research, helping to compose some of Sisley’s most iconic skin-care creams and scents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

For milder forms of face acne, dermatologists may recommend face washes or creams containing benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid or retinoids such as adapalene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

These products are marketed to them as “skin-loving,” not as wrinkle creams.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Peters said: "Even if it means voting for Count Binface and getting 99p ice creams for 99 flakes, that is one more step than Nigel Farage has ever done for Clacton."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Justice Strauss had on a dreamy expression, as if she were about to be crowned queen, instead of just having some powders and creams smeared on her face.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

“Then we went to the far north side of Chicago to a Lithuanian neighborhood to play some grizzled old guys upstairs at the top of an old, smoky bar. They creamed us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

In quick succession, he downed large jars of pickle juice, hot dog water, creamed corn and hot sauce.

From Salon ● May 31, 2025

Little Pete is going to great lengths to avoid dancing at all, including chugging 15 gallons of creamed corn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

Sink into one of the plush leather banquettes to nosh on steakhouse classics like steak tartare, creamed kale and the most incredible double cheeseburger topped with in-house American cheese and dill aioli.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

He’d also made creamed onions, wild rice, cranberry sauce, and squash casserole.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

"When we have that participation gap, creaming people off the top and potentially sending them elsewhere to institutions in England doesn't feel right."

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

“I spend most of my time rubbing creams all over my body. … Face cream, eye cream, foot cream, just constantly creaming myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

The addition of one substance doubled the available latex and that yield was increased by 12-fold when a creaming agent was added for purification.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

Using caster sugar or superfine sugar makes a big difference in cakes, like in this Pistachio Cake with Lemon and Rosewater, in which those quick-dissolving properties make easier work of creaming together butter and sugar.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022

It was then that she went through her beauty routine, a cleansing, creaming ritual, which on Saturday nights included washing her hair.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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