blend
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The author, a musician and composer, illustrates how the artful blend of African rhythms and European melodies pioneered by Cuban players seeped, often undetected, into American music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Pre-shredded carrots: These get tossed into stew bases, pasta sauces and curries, particularly anything I’m planning to blend.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Brazil has a very unique ability to blend influences,” Barros explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Mark Borkowski, a public relations expert, says the blend of Streeting’s po-faced seriousness and Rayner’s irreverence is helping to catch people’s attention, with Burnham acting as a middle ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
They blend together in a haze of must and velvet and sawdust to the point where she sometimes does not recall what country she is in, not that it matters.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
ACOTAR, as it is known to aficionados, blends the swords-and-sorcery of fantasy epics like "Game of Thrones" with the smoldering romance familiar to readers of Danielle Steel.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“In partnership with Jean-Georges, we’re building a lifestyle destination that blends world-class dining, holistic wellness, and elevated service—a combination that deeply resonates with globally-recognized athletes, food connoisseurs, and art and culture enthusiasts.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
The play blends live puppetry, shadow puppetry, live performance and an original score of Indigenous percussion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Nestled amongst trees on the edge of green-belt land, the development's soft purple and pink brickwork blends high-density housing into an area of natural beauty.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
“The kite! Its background blends into the clouds! Looks like it's just the dragon flying up there! What a beaut you picked! I’ve worked out how to do a double loop!”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
In the Amazon rainforest, where priests have long been scarce, some villagers have turned to their own spiritual leaders, while evangelical missionaries have blended Christianity with indigenous beliefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
One of his most recent shows, in fall 2018 at Hollywood’s Kohn Gallery, featured cut metal collages that blended elements of assemblage, Pop Art and abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
While CoreWeave’s future debt will likely come at a higher interest rate, Borges argues the increase will only amount to 100 to 200 basis points, capping the company’s blended borrowing costs at around 10%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The cream uses the traditional mix of ricotta, mascarpone and sugar but he blended in porridge, sieved it and added some ground toasted oats.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Nightbeast’s fur blended almost exactly with the color of the fog around them except for red markings along its face and mouth that looked a lot like blood.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
The church is a “serious house on serious earth ... In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, are recognised, and robed as destinies,” he writes.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2015
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies.
From Time Magazine Archive
A soft hope blent with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Presently a voice blent with the rich tones of the instrument; it was a lady who sang, and very sweet her notes were.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The Day of the Dead, when Mexico honors its deceased by blending pre-Columbian traditions with the Christian All Saints' Day, is historically a family affair.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
She suggests blending pineapple cores into smoothies, but says the tough skins are not something she would recommend.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The cast members have become niche celebrities across romantasy, the literary genre blending romance and fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Under the deal, the potentially significant cost of importing millions of barrels of those blending materials is not included in the price.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
On the verge of blending with the universe I hear the whispers around the ridges of consciousness.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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