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dish

[dish] / dɪʃ /


NOUN
main part of meal
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I enjoyed classic Scottish food like full Scottish breakfasts with haggis and blood pudding; chicken rumbledethumps, a dish with mashed potatoes, cabbage and cheese; Tennents lager and single-malt Scotch.

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

Jackson hesitated, with one hand already hoisting the shepherd’s pie dish.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Everyone we spoke to agreed with that, praising the talented chefs who sent out all sorts of delicious dishes, from braised ox cheek to mackerel to pork loin, day and night.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Some Airbnb hosts aren’t happy, especially about the dirty dishes policy, and have started petitions to reverse the new policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

I’d rush through my homework and lock myself in my room till dinner, then hurry through dishes and disappear till the next morning.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

From building on the hiding dished out to Hearts to another loss and getting shunted back to bitterness and rancour.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

For centuries, they have dished up wine from the surrounding vineyards to wash down typically hearty central European fare.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 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

In his lawsuit, Cipriani alleged that, during months of on-again, off-again conversations, Shell dished sensitive information to him, including that Paramount was poised to strike a $7.7-billion deal to bring UFC fights to Paramount+.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Their food was dished out from a leafy bower, where Marian and her attendants cooked.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Plus, the Pentagon is dishing money to high-tech defense startups, and JD and Usha Vance welcome a new son.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Hari certainly understands this; she regularly posts content on how to avoid eating food grown with Roundup, dishing out advice like “buy local & ask about pesticides” and “grow your own food.”

From Salon ● May 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

A week later we passed the broth shack, and there was a sixty-year-old woman working there, hard as nails, dishing out consommé.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson


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