rim
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Gently press one pastry square into each prepared muffin cup, leaving the pointed corners extending above the rim.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
“It’s also good on butter and toast,” he said, and for the rim of a margarita.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
With the grace of a bull in a china shop, Thiero flung himself toward the rim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
Anunoby then made a block with 11.1 seconds left, to stop the Spurs leading 108-105, before tipping in the game-clinching score after Brunson's three-point attempt struck the rim.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
She appears at the rim of the nest.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
The arms are forged from motorbike springs and gears, its shoulders are curve from car rims, the spine is moulded from a fuel tank and its knees are pieced together with chains and suspension parts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels, overflowed crater rims, and rushed through canyons.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
Though Real Madrid would shape him into the best young player in Europe, Doncic believes the foundations of his game were set earlier, in Slovenia, on the playground, outside, on crooked rims, without adults hovering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025
Combs would regularly bring "random women" there to party, turning up with an entourage of dozens of people in "three white jeeps, with white rims and white leather seats", they say.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025
Everything was in a state of disarray—sewing projects abandoned upon the spinnet, shutters drawn, dogs sleeping on the settee, dirty plates and platters still lain on the table, the food crusted to their rims.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Heat the oven to 400°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
I like her rimmed bowl for breakfast or a light lunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
He wore a black t-shirt, dark trousers and black rimmed glasses as he entered his pleas.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025
Impossibly deep caves in somber velvets and blues are rimmed with massive coffin ships of unknown origin.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
He is slight, perhaps five feet six inches tall, with closely cropped hair, wearing wire- rimmed spectacles.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Beyond the museum, the grassy hills rimming the building will also be expanded and extended because Angelenos—children and adults—have a beloved tradition of rolling down them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Beside her, Ryder, gray hairs rimming his eyes, cropped grass on the lawn of his new home, untethered and, without a fence around him, free.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
“You can create a toned-down version of the look by just rimming your eyes with liner,” Ms. Rinaldi said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Sand and gravel deposits can be found along 2,000 miles of Lake Bonneville’s ancient shorelines rimming the valleys of northern Utah, says John Macfarlane, a neurosurgeon on Moench’s board.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2020
He is an old man in this vision, bow poised on string, smiling at me with wrinkles rimming his eyes.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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