repast
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The work accelerated during Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims traditionally conduct a dawn-to-dusk fast broken by what in normal times would be a sumptuous repast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
The prosecutor’s memo describes Caddle as “cold-hearted” and says he even attended the repast after Galdieri’s funeral.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
Brunch was known as "the latest 'fad'" and "a repast at 11 o'clock a.m."
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023
Maybe too decadent for an office worker’s midday repast, but I’ll happily risk an afternoon knockout punch for this sandwich.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2022
We were halfway through this simple, disappointing repast when the waitress dropped the bill on the table as she passed.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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After this first meal, I like to maul the rest of the meat off the bones to fashion into all manner of repasts throughout the week.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
A pineapple upside-down cake and an evening with Mitch McConnell would both be sweet repasts, except for the evening with Mitch McConnell.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
As a journalist, he brought not only a good appetite to his work but also a lyrical and dynamic approach to his accounts of notable repasts.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 27, 2019
Yes, at first, well-heeled travelers took off in these new flying machines, white-gloved hands on their matching luggage, and prepared to enjoy civilized repasts seated at tables.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2010
I devoured these sad repasts while inhaling the odor of roasts in Cheapside and Fleet Street.
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
It can then be copied and repasted somewhere else in an instant.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2019
So far as he could possibly detect, not one had been altered or repasted on the end.
From A Husband by Proxy by Jack Steele
When these things are ready, the pasted cover should be examined and repasted if it has dried in any place.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
Shakespeare's language remains undisturbed in this version, but Papp's imaginative scissoring and repasting has sculptured a Hamlet of crystalline tensity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So after repasting themselves, they made them ready for the journey with takeing repose that night.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson
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