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stew

[stoo, styoo] / stu, stju /




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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

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

“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

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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