ham
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Skip processed meats such as bacon, ham, or sausages.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
Other pizzas that piqued my interest include a half-white-and-half-red sauce pizza topped with candied bacon, ham, sweet onions, fennel and basil, and a blue cheese-focused pizza topped with pears, rosemary, shallots and onions.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
They found that processed meats, such as bacon, hot dogs and sliced ham, were linked to the highest risk of dementia and cognitive impairment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
And obviously you have throughout history those characters who know how to add to that, who can ham it up in such a way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
On another side-board was a ham, and a great piece of cold bacon.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
ChatGPT said she’d need to make two turkeys, two hams and six pies to feed all those guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
There is a pleasing calm to her delivery that stands out in a scene of fidgety hams.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
However, certain types of ham products – especially highly processed or cured hams – are less healthy options for several reasons:
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
It said appetite for traditional Christmas dinner items was particularly strong in 2023, with volumes of parsnips, sprouts and potatoes up, along with festive meats including pigs in blankets, sausages, hams and turkeys.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024
She lifted her hand to stroke his thin one, but thought better of it She squatted cm her hams.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The last part was hammed up a bit; lacking a controlling stake doesn’t automatically equate to no influence on decisions.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
Now their AI capability, however obscure, is hammed up.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
Janie Dee hammed up “The Boy From …” a parody of “The Girl from Ipanema.”
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022
The event felt like a Cold War proxy battle, Green said, but instead of getting angry, he hammed it up for the audience and coaxed laughs out of crowds.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
Slopper hammed it up a bit, trying to mimic and trying to pretend that wasn’t the case.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Twenty minutes later, they are on stage rehearsing The Happy Dictator; followed by Shaun Ryder, hamming up his part on the 2005 classic Dare!
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Was it necessary to have the head coach of the Warriors and a former Bulls shooting guard hamming it up on the party’s biggest night?
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2024
The 450-pound porker wandered from his pen last week then moseyed on down the road, where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
At this, Musk makes a cartoon villain face, hamming it up to the host and audience.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2023
They were sitting on the deck, staring at Percy, but when he glared at them pointedly, they started hamming it up again, trembling and flopping around like fish.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
