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Start the sauce: In a large, wide skillet or Dutch oven, heat the butter, olive oil or combination of the two over low heat.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Perfect problem to have,” it wrote, ending the sentence with a wide grinning emoji.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Top-quartile buyout managers have outperformed the public-market equivalent in every single period, by a wide margin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
DR20 includes a wide range of resources for researchers and astronomy enthusiasts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
No one has to pick their white puffs; instead, wind blows them far and wide, making it seem like snow.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Co-author Associate Professor Maarten Immink says the findings point to a wider change in the way the body manages movement as people grow older.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Taylor went on to explain how things such as the menopause movement have "created a wider cultural shift in attitudes".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s simply spread across a much wider landscape than alcohol alone.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The controversy around Arday appears to have divided the Cambridge campus and wider academia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Seeking security in military superiority, they recruited ever larger armies and navies, piled up more and more of the latest new weapons, and built wider and stronger fortifications along their national borders.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Protecting houses of worship was work I helped begin under New York Mayor Eric Adams, and I understand the nuances of crafting legislation that can win the widest support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Give your eyes around 20 to 30 minutes to adjust to the darkness and look towards the widest unobstructed area of sky possible.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Although NDR’s longer-term growth-versus-value models now favor value by the widest margin in five years, the firm isn’t recommending investors rush into the trade.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Of the three known planets in the system, Beta Pictoris d has the widest orbit, although it still lies inside the inner boundary of the debris disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The jaws of the widest C are 3,950 feet apart, an expanse so big that scientists did not recognize the ridges as constructions until they took aerial photographs of the site in the 1950s.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
