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starch

[stahrch] / stɑrtʃ /
NOUN
laundering agent
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NOUN
complex carbohydrate
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NOUN
stiff bearing
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That includes the starch, fiber, and sweetener that currently have to be added separately.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

“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

In “The Caribbean Cookbook,” the starch is either rice or “ground provisions,” the Anglophone term for yams, sweet potatoes, plantains, breadfruit and other staples.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

"You like starch in the other ones, though."

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson

But acrylamide is also a totally natural byproduct of cooking starches.

From Slate Sep. 14, 2026

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

Instead, they’re typically made from cheap ingredients such as modified starches, sugars, oils, fats and protein isolates.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2024

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

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

Shaking out the bedding provided in a brown paper bag, I watched my fellow passengers make up their berths, tucking in starched sheets with the ease of seasoned travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 29, 2025

“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

Even many of his supporters expected Lurie, with his starched shirts and monotone voice, to approach the new job as more of a public policy nerd than a cheerleader-in-chief.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2025

“Plastics,” he’s told by Mr. McGuire, the starched corporate executive who offers the advice.

From New York Times Mar. 9, 2024

The starched white sleeves of his shirt, rolled up to the elbows, glimmered eerily in the half dark and his tan skin seemed almost black.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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




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