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dish

[dish] / dɪʃ /


NOUN
main part of meal
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Along with morning staples like biscuits and pancakes, there are specialties like tomato gravy and mush, a regional dish of fried cornmeal strips with syrup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

They then moved a light source by hand, illuminating the fins to guide the robot through a maze positioned inside the dish.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

While France boasts its beef bourguignon, India is not to be outdone with goat nihari, a meat dish cooked for hours in a spicy broth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

A Belfast cafe, meanwhile, had its bacon and egg soda bread dish represented as a glass of fizzy drink with a cooked egg and bacon floating in it.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

There was a pail with a mallet, a small dish, and three cups.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

At home, people might want to try leaving skins on kiwi fruit, using broccoli stalks in stir-fries, or adding bell pepper seeds to dishes, the researchers suggest.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

To study the spiders' sleeping behavior, the team placed individual Portia fimbriata spiders in plastic dishes measuring 12 centimeters in diameter.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

For meals, the spa has two chefs — one Armenian, another Uzbek — who prepare fresh Mediterranean dishes, as well as Eastern European classics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Hosts can make reasonable requests, Airbnb says, including asking that used dishes be put in the sink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

While Mother and I wash and put away the few dishes we haven’t yet sold at the market, we hear a faint knock at the door.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

When the Ballon d'Or for best female footballer is dished out on Monday night, the chances are it will be a familiar figure that lifts the coveted trophy.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Kelly dished on the origin story of the MTV reality show that made her, her mother Sharon Osbourne and younger brother Jack Osbourne household names.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Despite his professorial air, however, he dished up practical advice rather than academic musing, the magazine said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

She also dished out some tips for renovating your own space, telling fans, “You don’t have to do it all in one day. Start with the key pieces and build outward.”

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

Usually Mrs. Tomolillo had taken the lids off and dished out everybody's food like a little mother, but then they sent her home, and nobody seemed to want to take her place.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

No other known donor comes close to dishing out more funding.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Sick of the punishment the Thunder were dishing out, he may or may not have urged his teammates to return the favor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Smart returned for the final two games, dishing out 17 assists while the Lakers tried to keep their offense afloat without Doncic and Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Whether its dishing out billions to build out the infrastructure to power AI, or investing in new AI products to try to improve productivity, companies are investing massive amounts of money on AI.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

Managers upbraided a group of messenger boys overheard dishing office dirt at a local diner, and engineers caught having a loud, detailed work conversation at the Industrial USO were called on the carpet.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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