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dumpling

[duhmp-ling] / ˈdʌmp lɪŋ /


NOUN
milquetoast
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Amazon is now awash with squishy products: There is a cheese squishy, glitter dumpling squishies and even a squishy that resembles a stick of butter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

But that has largely been the result of viewers dumpling cable, not actual growth in the market, data show.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

What’s funny is that if you tell someone you’re honing the perfect sourdough or carbonara or cacio e pepe or dumpling fold, they’ll clutch their pearls in shared devotion.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

A study in juxtaposition, the soft vulnerability of a melty dumpling is hardened in black lacquer, fixed in time and space.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

He wanted to laze away the afternoon at a dumpling house, sip plum juice by a green pond flickering with orange-and-white carp.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen




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