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cook

[kook] / kʊk /




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You may endure a period of time where you cannot put your own clothes, bathe, or even cook or feed yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

I’m so used to being on the executive or A&R side and letting people cook like “We’re here to help market it, but this is your work.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

AI slop has begun appearing on restaurant menus, signs and advertisements, offering food imagery that looks optimized for appetite without necessarily resembling anything a person could cook.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

You can caramelize the corn in a skillet, but if you prefer it with a late-summer-smoky-char, cook the shucked cobs on the grill before cutting off the kernels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Among the very few enslaved people who traveled with him to Washington from Monticello were young women who were to be trained to cook in the President’s House and then return.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

A menu, she argued, should not require cooks to spend 18 hours peeling pine nuts simply because the chef wants to demonstrate technical skill.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Japanese cooks are working with a brand-new selection of seafood, since El Nino has altered ocean migratory routes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Now she buys staples, and while she tries to stick to a weekly meal plan she mostly cooks what she is feeling.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

One posting in August by a labor agency in Moscow advertised the services of a team of 40 North Korean women to work as cooks, conveyor-line operators or textile workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

When I reached the part where the chicken cooks for two hours in a wok, I closed the book.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen




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