curry
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The crab curry is so delicious and they do these street food sausages that we crave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Additional favorites include a homemade rotisserie chicken Caesar salad, an avocado and cilantro-forward salad and a curried chicken salad, complete with a mayo-based curry chutney dressing and whole cashews.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
They may even want to emulate the boss to curry favor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
And what are the incentives for Republican lawmakers to curry favor with these figures?
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
She makes sure to prepare his favorite things: lamb curry with lots of potatoes, luchis, thick channa dal with swollen brown raisins, pineapple chutney, sandeshes molded out of saffron-tinted ricotta cheese.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Smoky, charcoal-grilled meats and fragrant wok-cooked tomato curries sizzling over an open flame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Lamb is often Muslim consumers' meat of choice for family occasions and festivals like Ramadan and Eid, while mutton is a popular ingredient in curries and stews.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
It’s used exclusively in savory dishes, namely curries, due to its robust, smoky flavor.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
Levy UK says it aims to use the whole animal, turning lesser cuts into burgers, curries and pies.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Rice, lots of different curries, dal, kebab, poori, paratha, samosa, mango pickle, gulab jamun, and rasmalai.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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"For the next week we just had tuna every day, it was a bit like Forrest Gump and the shrimp, we had curried tuna, fried tuna, battered tuna, beer-battered tuna, raw tuna."
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
To push their deal through, the shot-calling Ellisons, Larry and David, have indeed curried favor with Mr. Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
But after indulging in a few spoonfuls, my palate begged to differ, craving more in between bites of curried rice and meat.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
Once identified among the intelligentsia as a “reformicon” hoping to shift a neoconservative GOP toward a pro-working-class direction, Salam had long curried liberal affection as “literary Brooklyn’s favorite conservative.”
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024
I glanced hurriedly through it, curried prawns, roast veal, asparagus, cold chocolate mousse—was this lunch or dinner, I could not see, lunch I suppose.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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He added, “How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe? How can that not be the case?”
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
He first fought with the invading Japanese to oust Britain, before swapping sides as the tide of war changed and currying favour with London for the cause of independence.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
At the temple, Prapakaran, the software engineer, walked 11 circles around the inner sanctum, part of the ritual for currying favor with the Visa God.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2025
So hacking companies prioritize currying favor over delivering excellence.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
It outraged him that the people who got credit for higher understanding were those who spent the most time currying favor with the media.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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