crust
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The menu featured soybean purée, soybean cheese, soybean bread, soybean coffee and even apple pie baked in a soybean crust.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Its crust remains geologically active, with volcanoes and plate tectonics continuously reshaping the planet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Tata has been mining soda ash for years in Lake Magadi, a vast area often covered by a whitish salt crust.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The trick is not to recreate the chicken bake so faithfully that you simply end up with one lying open-faced on a pie crust.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
I move the crust out of its line of sight, only for it to give another excited “Woo!”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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In one session, Sylvia mentioned: “On the weekends, I usually just make a meal out of the bread crusts I cut off my kids’ sandwiches.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Crusted scabies, previously known as Norwegian scabies, causes a "scaly rash and thickened crusts of skin", external containing thousands of mites, and can be due to reduced immunity, although that is not always the case.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Still, executives expressed optimism during the earnings call about things like Totino’s pizza crusts and seasoned pizza rolls, as well as Asian- and Mexican-inspired snacks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
It’s also buttery and oh-so rich — a delicious flavor profile that most store-bought pie crusts simply can’t achieve.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
In his arms, he carried two large loaves of bread that must have fallen into the fire because the crusts were scorched black.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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The main symptom is a crusted, flaky rash that often affects the elbows, knees, hands and feet.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Constable’s famously crusted, white-flecked surfaces, as seen in this painting’s coarsely textured beams and choppy canal water, and in its windswept, cloud-filled skies, became touchstones in his work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
It heats to 1450°F, allowing you to expertly grill a fabulously crusted steak without ever leaving the comfort of your heated apartment.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
I’ve tried lots of gardening gloves, but they all had the same problem: I had to peel them off to use my smartphone, which isn’t easy when they’re wet or crusted with dirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
But there was something about that city, with its white marble and black asphalt, crusted with history, ablaze in traffic lights, that showed me I could admire the past without being silenced by it.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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"Swollen face, a fever, lameness, drooling and crusting of the nostrils - if you do come across any of those clinical signs ring the department immediately and we will investigate."
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
Two days later the reaction arrived: redness, itching, oozing, crusting and small, fluid-filled blisters up and down his legs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
In “Downton” Fellowes wrote all the best set-ups and punchlines for Violet, inspired by Smith’s near-flawless track record with crusting each phrase with the perfect sear.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
But not just any rust stain: This one had really hit its mature stride, crusting corroded metal onto the unsealed paver surface — sort of like iron-oxide barnacles.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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