stew
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Maradona and eventual champion Argentina eliminated England 2-1 in the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup, leaving the Brits to stew over their link to a soccer legend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
With little energy available to disrupt it, the omega pattern can persist for days -- or weeks -- allowing heat to stew and temperatures to intensify beneath it.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Reviews for the show have been largely positive, with Empire describing it as "an utterly insane stew that somehow makes perfect sense".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
The dish — essentially Italian rice and peas — sits somewhere between risotto and stew, using both puréed and whole peas for texture and depth.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
At the moment, there were seven other Elders focused on prep work—dicing vegetables for stew, carving meat off carcasses.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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In Burbank, family-run Tun Lahmajo delves into Armenian homestyle dishes, including flatbreads, cold salads, roasted meats, a range of soups and herbed stews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Social-media creators have documented their own perpetual stews with names like “Stewtheus” and “Soupina.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
The fiery flavouring is a staple of dining tables regionwide, the obligatory accompaniment for everything from rice and peas, to curries and stews.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Tall ones for soups, stews and curries tucked into the freezer.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026
Vegetables became more abundant, and chunks of meat began to appear in our soups and stews.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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“Mine is usually some version of everything stewed with whatever carbs I have left,” writes another Redditor.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
A piece of herring—pickled, stewed or fried—constituted a weekday treat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The idea came from dinner at Le Bouchon, where they serve a winter cheesecake with stewed fruit and — yes — granola.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2025
“And turtles? And the fact that, like, it’s all stewed up with, like, chilies and peppers and onions and like, ‘Oh, you really made this a dish?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
The suppers were TV dinners in floppy aluminium containers with separate compartments for the stewed meat, the boiled potatoes and the peas.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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The English players were still stewing four minutes later when Maradona proved that he was more than just a cheat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"I wrote it on Monday because I'd been stewing in anger about ICE," Terrell posted on Instagram, adding he was stunned by the reception it received.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
It speaks to our pickle as consumers that I have been stewing over this two-faced selling approach for weeks and am still not sure if I should want to stop it.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
We subsidize highways to the tune of $32 billion a year, only to sit on them stewing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2025
In a glass jar on a shelf my mother kept a big brown hand with pointed claws stewing in alcohol and herbs.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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