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“It just kind of took the starch out of everything,” said Aron Wellman, managing partner of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, co-owner of the 4-year-old colt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

The adjacent "mipyme" -- Cuba's acronym for small business which is used as shorthand for any private enterprise -- is a picture of plenty, offering everything from rice, Cuba's staple starch, to rum and ketchup.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Using that tech, MOA Foodtech discovered the best microorganisms to make use of the leftover starch and fibre in the pea protein industry.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

They are not an afterthought starch; they are structural.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

There were some condemned head-dresses lying in disgrace—strange shapes of starch like candle extinguishers, and meringues, and the double horns of cows.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In boiling water, the vegetable’s starches begin to convert to sugars, bringing out a natural sweetness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

For now, instead of lab-grown ingredients, Jakub is using starches and proteins from naturally occurring fungi to develop his recipes.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025

The predominant biofuel option on the market today is generated from corn, in part because, the researchers said, their starches break down easily.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024

In a final act of generosity, the noodles share their starches with the broth, thickening it into a sauce.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

Many of these fractions, the sugars and starches, the alcohols and acids, the emulsifiers and stabi lizers with the strange names, will be made into food.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Cipriano, 35, a man of starched white shirts, neatly-parted hair and wire-rimmed glasses, resembles a Brooks Brothers mannequin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

“The Gilded Age” has always plied high-toned melodrama as its chief asset, but Season 3 ripens the starched formality of previous episodes into succulence.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025

“Kids are now wearing their botas to school or their tejanas and starched jeans.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

The software used by the engineers at the truss manufacturing plant allowed the designer to make the trusses stiffer than an old-fashioned starched shirt collar.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023

Mr. Spencer wore a pair of stiffly starched and ironed overalls—probably pretty uncomfortable.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

Every day, he’d get up at 6 a.m., pop his oldies tape in his cassette player, pull down the ironing board built into the wall of his 1920s childhood home and start starching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

There he would be, relaxing in front of Match of the Day, while methodically folding his charcoal cashmere jumpers and starching his blue shirts.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2019

An exhausted woman in an Arizona State sweatshirt inspects my shirt for proper starching before handing me a questionnaire in which I am asked to detail my gastrointestinal health:

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2017

Or it could mean a Kangol hat, some Cazal shades, ultra-baggy pants or Adidas with fat laces that required stretching, starching and pressing to perfect the look.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2015

It was tiresome wearing the same dress every day that I worked, starching up the collar and dab-washing the armpits every night so it would be dry by the next morning.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu