pate
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Pizza popped up as often as pate on plates, while one caterer from La Reunion has won social media adulation for his gifts of cari, a spicy dish popular on the Indian Ocean island.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Shekoh Confections – Master Chocolatier Shekoh Moossavi creates hand-painted bonbons, sea-salt caramels and pate de fruits inspired by Persian heritage and French technique.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
With his bald pate, dark-framed glasses and knowing demeanor, he has become one of the foremost chroniclers of the world’s media barons and Manhattan potentates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
The resulting mess, he said, left him with no choice but to start over with a clean pate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025
They said he was the padeshah of pate a choux, the ruler supreme of rosewater and cream.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
The automaker says headliner pates on both sides of the cars may not be secured properly and could detach and hit drivers or passengers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Like bald pates, black holes of similar masses and spins then have no details—no “hair”—to distinguish them, as American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2018
Miss Dormer says “Hunger Games” fans often approach her to discuss Cressida’s unique “undercut” hairstyle, a style many acolytes of the books and films have copied on their own pates.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2015
Indelibly enigmatic, she tickles their pates but evades their clutches.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2012
When called upon, I delivered an effortless list of things that I detest: blood sausage, intestinal pates, brain pudding, I’d learned these words the hard way.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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