meaty
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I haven’t had a big acting meaty role like that for a long time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
She covered the song in 1975, choosing to cut the third verse and dial up the drama with meaty piano chords, slugging drums and a flourish of cymbals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
If you’re inspired, you can try out our new MarketWatch retirement questionnaire and ask a good, meaty question of your own.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
If you don’t have enough bones, Celenza says you can always do a 50/50 fortified stock using bouillon or even a flavor packet from ramen to round out the meaty flavor.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
I could almost see the widow cleaning it behind closed doors, her big, meaty hands moving with as much care over the hard metal surfaces as they would over the planes of a corpse.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
A crowd of about 50 supporters and curious locals meet the candidate at Donkey’s Place, a venerable deli that serves a meatier cheesesteak than more-famous shops in nearby Philadelphia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
And yet: If the White House’s furniture, paintings, and wallpaper inspire the fervent scrutiny of the nation’s interior decorators, it is because meatier changes have been so rare.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
Minor parts, including in Henry IV Part 1 and As You Like It, preceded a meatier role as Alan Downie in the 1983 production of Slab Boys, with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
This allows for more of a mixed network of the proteins, fats and water, making them meatier and more appealing to consumers.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
“Aaron,” I say, my heart thundering, my breath catching and turning into meatier and meatier coughs.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Julia Garner, who plays one of the film’s primary villains, the Silver Surfer, shockingly has some of the meatiest character writing in the entire film.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
Like Smart, Einbinder has the meatiest role among the nominees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Dr Zelenitsky said that finding only the legs suggested that this teenage gorgosaurus "seems to have wanted the drumsticks - probably because that's the meatiest part".
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
The young Gorgosaurus also seems to have been choosy, Zelenitsky says, because it ate only the two hindlegs of each Citipes, the meatiest part of the prey.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
If there was a ray of brightness in the whole episode it was that the newspapers had miraculously been denied the meatiest bit of his night's adventure— his detention in a cell.
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
