noodle
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For this cold noodle dish from Gu Grocery, blend toasted sesame seeds with soy sauce, rice vinegar, pickled mustard greens, and orange zest and juice for maximum flavor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
My preferred way to eat chicken noodle soup as a child was with so many Saltines crushed into the bowl that it ceased to resemble soup altogether.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
"We're worried," said Samuel Fu, who works in a noodle shop in the coastal district of Bali, near Taipei.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The restaurateur is the third generation of his family to run Wattana Panich, famed for the geriatric “mother stock” that forms the backbone of its signature beef noodle soup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
How to layer noodle, sauce, cheese, noodle, sauce, cheese like an edible art project.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
A lawyer by training, he seems to function primarily by breaking any challenge into small pieces to be noodled over at tedious length one by one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
There is Vicente Iborra, a 34-year-old midfielder who struggled to make an impact at Leicester City, and Pervis Estupiñán, the young Ecuadorean left back who noodled around the great Watford loan factory for a while.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2022
His first great muse, a Weimaraner called Man Ray, noodled around in front of the camera until Wegman decided to click the shutter.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019
“A few years into tweeting, when it was starting to become more important for me professionally, I noodled around to try to find something more straightforward,” she told me.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2017
She noodled at me, I noodled back at her, and her eyes crinkled charmingly whenever I managed a smidge of tuneful wit.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Overcoming the aerodynamic drag inherent with a trad-core design was a degree-of-difficulty multiplier for Rivian’s team, requiring lots of computer simulation and iterative, millimeter-scale noodling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
He was going out, but also writing music at home, noodling on the piano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
As the mood shifts, a noodling electric guitar kicks in and the gang unconsciously assembles into poses that could be on a grunge album cover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Purportedly about a dismal romantic engagement with John Mayer, it is produced in the style of Mayer, dressed liberally with blues guitar noodling.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
And so, while at GTE, he started noodling a nonmilitary question, one that troubled him and he couldn’t shake.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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