ingredient
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The lentils simmer in stock — or broth, or water and bouillon — until soft and stewy, and then comes the ingredient that makes the entire recipe sing white American cheese.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
To be sure, positive breadth hasn’t always been an essential ingredient in this bull market, which has been largely powered by semiconductor stocks and other AI-linked names.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
It's hard to pin down that mystery ingredient.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Maaden erected prefabricated warehouses for the fertilizer and rigged piping systems to move corrosive sulfuric acid, a key ingredient in phosphate production, into stainless-steel tanker trucks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
“I’m out of practice, retired; it’s been three years, you can’t mess around with these resurrection recipes; one little ingredient wrong, the whole thing blows up in your face.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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