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dish

[dish] / dɪʃ /


NOUN
main part of meal
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The dish, she added, then gets rounded out with fat from avocado and loads of garlic and spices to pack a spicy-sweet punch and comes with artichoke-olive salad for contrast.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

It has the body and cling you want from a creamy dressing, but it doesn’t drag a dish down the way mayonnaise sometimes can.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

Play is the primary side dish at “7 Paintings,” a tech-infused dinner theater that aims to be a crash course in fine art.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

The fascinating tale of how the U.S. earned its reputation for decadent fried food: Quick, close your eyes and think of the most American dish you can.

From Slate Jul. 6, 2026

She gestures at a dish of purple something.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Households in India have long relied on an informal army of domestic workers to mop floors, wash dishes and cook meals.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

At the booth for Suzhou-based UniX AI, a $44,000 robot completed household tasks, such as making the bed, putting laundry in the washing machine and doing the dishes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“We use top quality ingredients. No discounts or subgrade meats. Fresh veggies. All the side dishes are prepared by our staff,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

White, a former pub landlord, has resurrected his old hospitality skills to lead the front of house team, serving up dishes and chatting to guests.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

He starts taking the dishes to the dining table one by one.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Despite his professorial air, however, he dished up practical advice rather than academic musing, the magazine said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The ICO recently dished out a £14m fine to online platform Reddit, finding it had unlawfully used children's personal information and failed to adequately check the age of its users.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

She also dished out some tips for renovating your own space, telling fans, “You don’t have to do it all in one day. Start with the key pieces and build outward.”

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

Gianna Kneepkens added 10 points, four assists and four rebounds, and Rice dished out seven assists for UCLA, which improved to 3-1 all time against Iowa and 3-0 under coach Cori Close.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 2026

Fishtail took off his big moose-hide mitts and Angeline dished up a wooden bowl of the soup, eager for him to sit and warm himself.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Clark led all scorers with 24 points while also dishing out nine assists in the Fever win, while Kelsey Mitchell added 22 points.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

Hari certainly understands this; she regularly posts content on how to avoid eating food grown with Roundup, dishing out advice like “buy local & ask about pesticides” and “grow your own food.”

From Salon May 1, 2026

Whether its dishing out billions to build out the infrastructure to power AI, or investing in new AI products to try to improve productivity, companies are investing massive amounts of money on AI.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

He began worrying about whether listeners would keep tuning in to a bunch of self-described normal guys when they could hear an entire series from an NBA player dishing on locker room antics.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

My father, dishing out the beef stew, says that a species a day is becoming extinct.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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