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brown

[broun] / braʊn /


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Here, they get cooked with butter, brown sugar, orange zest and salt until glossy and jammy, then folded into a simple sour cream cake scented generously with cardamom.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

In all, 1,589,577 dozen eggs were covered by the recall, and included both white shell eggs and brown cage free shell eggs under a variety of brand names.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

At the entrance of a little hole in the muddy river bank she points to a patch of dark brown in the lighter coloured mud.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Video footage showed deputies assisting wildlife officials as they carried the tranquilized animal to a brown cage to transport it out of the area.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Another pile of garbage bags sits in front of the sink, doing nothing to hide the yellowed linoleum flooring that’s cracked and peeling where it meets the worn brown carpeting of the living room.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

They fell in love with the hash browns at Waffle House.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

The meat browns, the tortilla crisps, and when you flip it, everything holds together like it was always meant to.

From Salon May 22, 2026

For the $4 breakfast bundle, customers can choose a sausage McMuffin or sausage biscuit, served with hash browns and a small coffee.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

The difference in snow levels is night and day, with last year’s white peaks replaced by browns and greens.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

The menu board itself still offered eggs, hash browns, seven kinds of pie.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

We believe that’s because walleye, for example, have a specialized retina that helps them see in browner waters with poorer visibility.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Mamdani's retort is that he's more like a Scandinavian politician, only browner.

From BBC Nov. 1, 2025

Melanomas typically look darker or browner than basal cell carcinomas, Connolly said, but patients should bring any lesion they’re worried about to a dermatologist’s attention.

From Seattle Times Mar. 24, 2024

Cook at 350 to 375 degrees — the higher temp will get you a browner, crisper top — for 40 minutes to an hour, depending on your dish and the ingredients.

From Washington Post Oct. 31, 2022

The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“I’m not going to be supportive of defunding cultural events in the brownest city in Orange County and making the public choose between celebrating our culture or giving mutual aid,” said Councilmember Johnathan Hernandez.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2025

"I'd look at certain celebrities who've got like white decor in the house, I'm like, 'who would choose white? I've gone for the brownest brown so that it hides the dirt," she said.

From BBC Feb. 4, 2024

Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Hawaiian, “maka” means eyes, and Kumu Maka’s are the biggest and brownest.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

I hug Spot, then look into his brownest eyes.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The dish, made of browned ground beef, rice and basically whatever else you have on hand, has inspired hundreds of posts since January.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

Each bite is guaranteed to be a delicious medley of both sweet and spice, never just plain browned crust.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2026

It needs only a brief bloom — fragrant, not browned.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2026

In a large skillet over medium heat, cook sausage until deeply browned and the fat has rendered, about 5–7 minutes.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2026

Hawkers were at every comer, with glass-enclosed cases of akara and suya and browned chicken drumsticks, with trays of peeled oranges, with coolers the size of bathtubs full of Walls banana ice cream.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Even zoomed-out satellite imagery of western France shows a striking increase in the browning of land compared to last year.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Brook trout abundance was not affected by freshwater browning.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

But freshwater browning doesn’t affect all species of fish equally.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Potatoes need to be plucked from the ground and handled with care to prevent browning that can mar otherwise perfect chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

Over the lintel was affixed the ancient dragon’s skull, its browning sockets gazing down the corridor.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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