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chewy

[choo-ee] / ˈtʃu i /
ADJECTIVE
requiring chewing
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In a video watched 2.8 million times, a foreign reviewer described it as "kind of like chewy tofu" and "very oily".

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“The texture is an abomination: gluey, with rubbery, chewy pockets.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Greasy, salty, chewy and—as Richard Wilbur wrote of the potato—“beautiful only to hunger,” they simply taste good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

You’ll encounter a kind of linguistic confetti: cakey, fudgy, moist, dense, rich, gooey, chewy.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2026

I was eating a piece of flatbread—nothing too hard or chewy.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Or are you craving something thicker and chewier?

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Their dollars are flowing to niche names with more cultural cachet, from fancy new protein bars to chewier candy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

While I appreciate the classic appeal of ginger snaps, my heart belongs to a chewier counterpart — the ginger molasses cookie.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

Mrs Cole said it took her 40 minutes to cook and was therefore tougher and chewier.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2023

Sweet Potato Biscuits are sweeter and chewier than the baking powder variety eaten elsewhere.

From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Mitzi Perdue

The lobster is pleasantly oceanic-tasting and then, sadly, the chewiest I’ve ever encountered, chewing and chewing like a wad of seafood-flavored bubble gum.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

"Oh, I think this one is the chewiest," said my dad, waving around a chocolate chip.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2021

The chewiest, knottiest song here is the title track, which concludes the album, a six-minute meditation that feels designed, after a half-hour of reckoning, to be inconclusive.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

Mr. Lamar’s “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” is as much of a slog as any great album in recent memory and probably the chewiest major-label hip-hop album in more than a decade.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2012



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