- a variation of grille.
grill
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You can caramelize the corn in a skillet, but if you prefer it with a late-summer-smoky-char, cook the shucked cobs on the grill before cutting off the kernels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The grill leans into comfort foods and Americana with crab cakes, spinach artichoke dip, a Lucas-favorite chopped salad, jumbo-prawn cocktails, mac and cheese, and pigs in a blanket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Blanket beside blanket, grill beside grill, body beside body, fire beside fire.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
"This summer has become so hot that I feel like meat on the grill," the app's developer Yu Min-jun told BBC Korean.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
No one pulls out a barbecue grill on the sidewalk, or a small table for a game of dominoes.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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Hunched over sizzling grills and shrouded in smoke, trainees at the Yueyang Barbecue Academy in southern China roast skewer after skewer of succulent beef tendon, perfecting the skills that could land them a restaurant job.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
This July 4, millions of Americans will fire up their grills and cook plenty of burgers and steaks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Gas grills heat up faster than charcoal and are easier to control, but they sacrifice some of the smoky flavor that makes live-fire cooking so distinctive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
His factory purchases raw seaweed, grills it with oil and salt, and cuts it into the familiar rectangular sheets sold in stores.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
The kitchens are a row of gas burners and open grills set on a concrete slab beneath a sheet of corrugated metal.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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Langer’s No. 44 is a hot pastrami Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut and nippy cheese on grilled rye bread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sometimes they spring for heat-and-serve options like Green Giant frozen vegetables or Sam’s Club grilled chicken, to avoid ordering takeout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The rest of the menu runs the seafood gamut, from grilled whole branzino to New England seafood sauté, along with a smaller selection of steaks.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
South Korea's national police chief was grilled by lawmakers at an emergency National Assembly hearing on Monday, during which he admitted that "there is a fault in the system".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
We stop at a diner for buttery grilled cheese sandwiches, and then we follow it up with ice cream before returning to Caitlin’s.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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Disclosure spawned another distasteful practice—showrooming, in which people would spend hours in a store grilling a sales clerk and test-driving computers or appliances, then buy online elsewhere for less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The trailer then cuts to Fielder grilling Evans about whether he was afraid of being scammed, considering that he comes from a rich family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Facing his last weekly grilling from MPs in parliament, Starmer said he wanted to see the next leader of his centre-left Labour party succeed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Rapport matters, and if you don’t have confidence in this guy when you are done politely grilling him like a hamburger on the Fourth of July, move on to someone who does.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
When I sat in the shelter grilling fish, eating it, and remembering his stories, I did not feel alone.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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