ladle
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The beef noodle soup, which accounts for about 80% of orders, contains noodles, beef, one ladle of original stock and one ladle of fresh broth to dilute the stock’s intense flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
You cannot bail out the Titanic with a soup ladle.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Having finished second last year, Vos said he was "very, very proud" to be taking home the silver ladle this time.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Sometimes the difference between everyday and celebratory is just a ladle, a bowl and the good ice cubes.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2026
One of my favorite photos was of my mom and Abuela smiling as Abuela symbolically handed my mom a ladle when she took over as head chef.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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Inside, workers dipped ladles into buckets filled with soup that they poured into Styrofoam containers stuffed with rice to distribute to Haitians who have lost homes to gang violence.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
It’s womb-like and astral, and Lustwerk’s talk-raps, which he casually ladles throughout, are like reassuring commands.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
The cover of Vishwesh Bhatt’s new cookbook is a still-life photograph: Jars of black-eyed peas stand near silver ladles tinged with patina, and next to them, collard leaves fan out and over.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
It has long tables, with red-and-white-checkered tablecloths, and its own lumberjack museum, with giant saws — and soup ladles befitting Paul Bunyan himself — hanging from the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
The spoons they gave us were big old metal soup ladles, which I knew would never fit into my mouth.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Many remain convinced a tsunami could yet strike, he said, as government aid workers ladled rice porridge into bowls for the evacuees.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
President ladled his usual flattery on Mr. Xi as a “great” and “powerful” leader, and said the two are now fast friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Its pink-and-green neon parrot sign lit the way to some of the most satisfying chili cheese fries I’ve ever eaten: crinkle-cut potatoes, sheeny Velveeta-yellow cheese sauce, chili ladled from a mini-crockpot in the back.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025
Then they ladled the liquid into small cups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
Kreacher came bustling to the table with a large tureen in his hands, and ladled out soup into pristine bowls, whistling between his teeth as he did so.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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A few metres away, his mother Beatrice was busy ladling out and flipping crepes spread from brim to brim with a generous layer of chocolate-hazelnut spread.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The women, ladling out stew and potatoes with frozen hands, scoffed at the idea that the police could stop the crossings.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
Then, and only then, does Smith fry the patty, obsessively ladling rendered beef fat over the meat until the surface caramelizes to wring out that Maillard reaction.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Once those finish baking and cooling, prepare the mousse and work fast, ladling the mousse into the pan, lining the outside with the ladyfingers, and then stacking the cake layers, alternating with the mousse.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022
She was ladling stew into a large serving basin.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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