jus
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This tenderized duck is served with bulgar wheat and carrot ragu, sweetcorn purée and orange jus.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
She has a firm idea about the distinction between two very different theories of citizenship: jus soli, based on soil, and jus sanguinis, based on descent.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
Options range from $19 wagyu oxtail patties to a $48 grilled pork chop served with crab butter, grilled mango and a jus flavored with kuchela, a Trinidadian green-mango relish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
And after a local screwpine sorbet palate cleanser, Maldivian chefs slice up Wagyu tenderloin alongside baby leeks, eggplant, fennel pollen and coconut jus.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
He say, Okay, boy, you be servin jus a little while, too.’
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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The southern coast, as we have already said, consists of a long narrow strip of argillaceous schist and detritus, with a very steep inclination, and overtopped throughout its length by high cliffs of jura limestone.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The Popes had not been fettered, habent omnia jura in suo scrinio; and their jurisdiction in England had been transferred whole and entire to the King.
From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
Society implies government, and whatever its origins or its forms there "must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summa imperii, or rights of sovereignty reside."
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
I pray write me some instructions in your next, how I may deale with him to ouermaster him for I am readie to take paines, te modo jura dantem indigeo, dictatorem exposco.
From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Henry Stevens
I send you a distich on the Lord Coke— "Jus condere Cocus potuit, sed condere jure Non potuit; potuit condere jura cocis."
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
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