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sauce

[saws] / sɔs /


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Experts say Taco Bell’s secret sauce isn’t just one flavor — the brand has achieved cultural relevance, menu innovation and compelling value that keep customers coming back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

They can take a generous smear of sauce, withstand several hours of compression and still emerge recognizably bread-shaped.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Items like honey chicken and cilantro lime sauce proved to be popular.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

It doesn’t come on a school-issued bun, nor does it come with the staining might of tomato sauce and ground beef.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 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

Last year, Evans told The Times that the interview format, with its squirm-inducing sauces, was a tactic to turn what might otherwise be a typical press tour interview into something raw and real.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Emma Robins, from Reading, says broccoli hidden in pesto pasta is a favourite for her three-year-old son Alfred, as well as veg pulsed into pasta sauces.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Guy Fieri secured the trademark for “Flavortown” for his lines of sauces and cookware.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

Football stadiums, air conditioning, the sheer variety—all the hot sauces, and 50 states with different rules.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

I don’t know where to sit any more than I know how to eat the pink sausage snuggled inside bread shaped like a corncob, smeared with sauces yellow and red.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

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 omakase tower offers a selection of sushi, tuna tartare, spicy tuna crispy rice, sashimi, and rolls — perfect for those who enjoy heavily sauced sushi.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2025

The capers themselves are fried to create a crisp garnish for the sauced asparagus.

From Washington Times Sep. 12, 2023

Riding the wave of an obsessive interest in all forms of fried chicken, crispy chicken skins are the base for nachos at pop-ups, and sauced and spiced as appetizers in restaurants.

From New York Times Dec. 27, 2022

They roasted apples in the fire, but ate the pasty cold, and hunger sauced it better than the finest cook could have done.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

But like self-absorbed restaurant owners everywhere, I push for more, hungry for feedback about the roll I selected for the brisket sandwich or the artful saucing of the pasta in her Thermos.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2019

"Way to your grandmother," said the loafer; "don't you come saucing of me."

From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)




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