sprinkle
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Pour it in a pretty bottle, sprinkle some social-media buzz and you have a product that’s as much about joining a cultural moment as it is about the water itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It’s also his first record sung predominantly in Spanish — along with the occasional sprinkle of English and Korean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
During a red alert -- the highest level -- the ministry advises people to eat light, stay indoors in the hottest parts of the day and sprinkle themselves with cool water.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Packed with cookies, brownies, old-school sprinkle cakes or lemon drizzle, they are usually found in front gardens, on driveways or by the roadside.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
If the fire won’t start sprinkle it with a little paraffin oil.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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"If you start out with pure vanilla ice cream but start mixing in sprinkles soon after, it won't be long until you can no longer find any pristine, plain, vanilla ice cream," Zhu said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
"There's been a shift lately in adding whimsical elements to your everyday, with things like sprinkles on matcha, yoghurt bowls and desserts."
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Knicks Fever has also upended the city’s food scene, causing a run on blue-and-orange dyes, sprinkles and other decorative instruments of culinary science.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
The emoji-filled caption accompanies a slideshow of photos featuring Cuoco, Pelphrey and their 3-year-old Matilda posing with a cake that is pink on the inside and covered in rainbow sprinkles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Is Gillicut going to come and demand his sprinkles, like before?
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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Since the start of her campaign, Raman has sprinkled Spanglish into her speeches and sometimes offered whole sentences in softly accented, lightly stilted Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Written by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, it comprises three stories over six episodes, with a longer mystery running below and the halting romantic do-si-do sprinkled on top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
These systems have tics—em-dashes sprinkled everywhere, flattery, frequent resort to antithetical contrast—repeated until they become wallpaper, but the problem is greater than that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The BBC previously heard from one frustrated listener, who, after finding his playlists increasingly sprinkled with tracks he suspected were AI-generated, built a tool to automatically label and block them.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
I sprinkled some of the salt from my pocket where my teeth marks were and bit again.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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Lev Sercarz suggests adding it to eggs or sprinkling it on raw vegetables.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Peppers followed, along with a healthy sprinkling of spices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
This is how you prevent the flat, powdery taste that comes from sprinkling seasoning over finished sauce.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2026
A court upheld a ban on people sprinkling salt outside their homes and businesses.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
She walked around the altar backwards three times sprinkling holy water.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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