roast
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Will my children still be eating our lamb for their Sunday roast or in their baltis and bhunas in 25 years time?
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
I think it’s a perfect blend of broth and roast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
And when you roast, push things a little farther than may initially feel instinctive.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
She enjoyed the food in China, especially Peking roast duck, and the diversity of scenery, from the skyscrapers of Shanghai to the natural landscape of Yangshuo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
He sat down to carve up the buffalo and roast the meat.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Also called a cumulonimbus flammagenitus, they can occur during volcanic eruptions or, as in this case, when a wildfire roasts the air near the ground, causing it to rise quickly.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
"My agent still roasts me about the fact that I used to go to castings dressed in jeans and NYU T-shirts that I'd got for free," she told British Vogue in February.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
The “expectant widow” line was a morbid, vaguely risqué gag, the kind of joke that has been standard fare at the Correspondents’ Dinner and roasts for decades.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
I can take nostalgic things that people love, or don’t love, and bring them back up in a way that roasts them lightly,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Once everything is properly roasted, I add just enough broth to loosen the browned, sticky bits from the bottom of the pot.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The second course featured sesame-crusted sea bass with baby bok choy and roasted garden eggplant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
For their main course they dined on a sesame-crusted sea bass, braised bok choy and roasted eggplant.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
On today’s bait menu: a tin of Wild Planet sardines, a bag of tuna flakes and a clamshell container of roasted chicken wings Navratil picked up from 7-Eleven on the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I dined on what they called “robber steak”—bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire, in the simple style of the London cat’s meat!
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Tanden willingly participates in the roasting, and as a woman of color, she’s destined to be on the brunt end of the internet, but as far as she’s concerned, it’s all been worth it.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Their itinerary included roasting marshmallows, competing in potato-sack races and building human pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Turning on the oven quite literally changes the climate of my entire workplace — but roasting summer fruit is one of the few things that makes the sacrifice worthwhile.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Officials said that several children outside in a patio area were roasting marshmallows on a device called Flikr Fire, a tabletop fireplace kit that uses rubbing alcohol for fuel and was recalled in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
They’d sat on bleachers in the sun, roasting like mutton, watching a jousting match.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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