ham
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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 year the ham was claimed, although there have been years when no-one has managed to scale the pole successfully.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Grab a pineapple bun stuffed with ham and butter, a corned beef egg tart, a sourdough one, even pistachio.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
No, I do not like green eggs and ham.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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Olives, hams and sausages, tinned seafood, fresh loaves, classic Spanish cheeses.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
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
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
“I’m hearing too much talk about ribs and hams and bacon.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Now their AI capability, however obscure, is hammed up.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
We don’t know if Nguyễn Phú Trọng, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, was briefed on the age discussion in advance, but he really hammed it up for the press.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2023
Janie Dee hammed up “The Boy From …” a parody of “The Girl from Ipanema.”
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022
Then, back to business: “I’m going to lead you through a little eighth-grade vocal warm-up,” Micciche hammed up the last phrase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
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
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Equally, you might not have believed her for a second, and thought she was hamming up her pain because it's all gone wrong.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Was he hamming it up for the cameras?
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
One of Claude’s colleagues, hamming to impress the fictional Paul, overstates their closeness: “‘We get on like a house on fire, don’t we, Claude?’
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
More than that, he seems to relish it, hamming it up as the babies reach out to touch him.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023
I nodded weakly, hamming it up just a bit.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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