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meaty

[mee-tee] / ˈmi ti /


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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

"There's about 12 different rounds of testing, psychometric, cognitive, safety-critical stuff, problem solving and a couple of quite meaty interviews," she said.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2026

I felt like I came into my own a little bit, and so just to find those meaty roles — but they don’t always come along.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

It was a meaty stick when he cut it up and cooked it.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Given enough time, they become sweet, savory and almost improbably rich, developing a depth of flavor that feels far meatier than the humble vegetable itself.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2026

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

“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




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