sauce
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After we’d ordered salt-and-pepper shrimp and branzino with sauce vierge and fennel herb salad, I chatted with veteran manager Jared Deery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The secret sauce of the economy has been an explosion in business investment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Something punchy: Small bottles of white balsamic and red wine vinegar, hot sauce, good olive oil and soy sauce.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
I pulled off a petal, perfect, crunchy, and dipped it in the sauce.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Perhaps, with the kind Justice Strauss and her library right next door, the children could prepare pleasant lives for themselves as easily as making puttanesca sauce for Count Olaf.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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They appear in sauces, salads, and cocktails, and even serve as colorful seasonal decorations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
They have a great all-you-can-eat menu with really great meats and an assortment of sauces and condiments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
My pantry is always stocked with: homemade sauces and seasoning blends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
For nonsandwiches, the chicken war is fought in sauces, suitable terrain for blank-canvas fried chicken and consumers who increasingly expect their food to be modifiable.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
I entered the kitchen to rinse out the pots, starting with the leftover Lebanon and Cairo sauces.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Ferrell said later that he was glad to be in the back row because it meant nobody behind him got sauced.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
The capers themselves are fried to create a crisp garnish for the sauced asparagus.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
That was topped with pickled red onion, pickle slices and coleslaw, before being sauced with hot maple syrup and a barbecue ranch dressing.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
Mile 11 of Interstate 55, in Memphis, was sauced up.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
“Oh, every penny... but never a groat more, my lord. You’ll get the meal you bargained for, but it won’t be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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While explaining that the paper used to occupy the whole building, employing over 1000 people, our frenemy Ken remarks, “That’s absolutely insane, if I do say so myself,” saucing each word with condescension.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2025
Of this generous, very pretty platter, my only sorrow was an uneven saucing, leaving one side somewhat bereft of the overall excellence.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Calling to me in winter are smoked squab breast with roasted chanterelles and venison paired with red cabbage and roasted squash, dishes that highlight the kitchen’s classic saucing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
Ms. Sarikaya laughed and then the two of them discussed whether to blanch noodles before saucing them; Ms. Olsen prefers a quick boil, while Ms. Sarikaya worries that it will leave the noddles too watery.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017
At this present we have Dan Morgan's fish to fry, and sitting here saucing this devil's mess of a supper with thoughts of private revenge will never fry it.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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