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dumpling

[duhmp-ling] / ˈdʌmp lɪŋ /


NOUN
milquetoast
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"We have jerk pork, we have rice and peas, we have jerk chicken, curry goat, stewed chicken, fried dumpling and plantain," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Amazon is now awash with squishy products: There is a cheese squishy, glitter dumpling squishies and even a squishy that resembles a stick of butter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

But that has largely been the result of viewers dumpling cable, not actual growth in the market, data show.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026

What’s funny is that if you tell someone you’re honing the perfect sourdough or carbonara or cacio e pepe or dumpling fold, they’ll clutch their pearls in shared devotion.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

He wanted to laze away the afternoon at a dumpling house, sip plum juice by a green pond flickering with orange-and-white carp.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

They often resemble dumplings, but children "can't see what's inside the box so they're excited to see which one they get".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

After getting to know them, he found himself sharing dumplings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

It began with a bag of frozen dumplings, a can of coconut milk, a spoonful of white miso and 15 minutes to make lunch.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

In a tiny Tokyo restaurant filled with the smell of Nepalese dumplings, Budhathoki Samjhana surveys the business she built from scratch but may now have to give up as Japan tightens visa rules.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

He finds his appetite has returned, so they share a bowl of dumplings and a packet of pieces of edible paper, with detailed illustrations on them that match their respective flavors.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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