palate
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It’s just enough to sate the palate until next week, when we find ourselves craving a treat once again.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Akers has just the palate cleanser in “To Kill a Cook”, a homage to 1970s Manhattan and its fine dining temples.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Habermas was born with a cleft palate that required repeated operations as a child, an experience he later said helped shape his thinking about language and communication.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
Cho applies this culinary overlap to his first Slow Food Fast contribution, bringing a Korean palate to salmon cooked en papillote—French for “in paper,” a method for steam-roasting ingredients in a pouch.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
I sniffed back the mucus in my nose, like I was clearing my palate, and put the sweatshirt up to my face.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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