ham
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Among them were Tamburella's refusal to provide ham and pineapple pizza for guests at a function.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The breadcrumbs were meant to become a crunchy, buttery topping for a baked pasta with Parmesan, peas and ham.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
We have the summer season passes and we just go ham.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Michelle Monaghan, always good, is also among the cast, as homicide detective Amanda Beck, though she lays low enough to duck all the free-floating ham in this adaptation of Alex North’s 2019 novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Last night George had eaten two plates of roast beef, veal and ham pie, carrots sweet as candy, and a mysterious dessert called meringue pudding.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
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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
Many commercially available hams, especially highly processed and cured varieties, can be high in sodium, which is salt.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
"This is a particular worry as we enter the busiest period of the year in the run up to Christmas when our members are preparing festive products like hams and pigs-in-blankets."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023
While she slumped on a bench near the barbecue drum, I stepped through the screen door into the mingled smells of pick- led eggs and sawdust, beneath dozens of sugar-cured hams dangling from the ceiling.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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They played to the paparazzi, vamping at high-profile events including the Kentucky Derby and the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner, and hammed it up in “caught off-guard” moments at the supermarket or over lunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
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
During a six-week election campaign, both Hipkins and Luxon traveled the country and hammed it up for the cameras.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Several sailors did imitations of Cockney boys begging for a treat as Marston hammed it up as an ice cream vendor.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Drummer Joel Amey punctures the pomposity during The Sofa - hamming up his accent as he sings about feeling "stuck in Seven Sisters, Norf Lahn-dan".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
During the six-week campaign, both Hipkins and Luxon have been hamming it up for the cameras, from scooping out ice cream to making pizzas.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
More than that, he seems to relish it, hamming it up as the babies reach out to touch him.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023
They put them on and dashed to the front of the stage, smiling and hamming it up for the finale: a class picture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
Titters had begun at the way the girl playing Ismene was hamming it up.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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