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fillet

[fil-it, fi-ley] / ˈfɪl ɪt, fɪˈleɪ /


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Make sure to buy two fish so everyone gets a fillet.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 15, 2026

The dish - usually prepared with a long strip of fillet steak, wrapped in pastry and mushrooms - was something Ms Patterson's mother made when she was a child, to mark special occasions, she said.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2025

These oily fish contain essential nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3 but some are lost from our diets when we just eat the salmon fillet.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

Both wild-caught and farmed salmon can be sustainable, but determining the environmental impact of a fillet isn't simple.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2024

Zafoona rolled back the tinfoil and eyed the fillet of fish lying on a small pile of yellow rice.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

First devised in 1828 by English grocer John Osborn, Gentleman’s Relish is a punchy blend of mashed anchovy fillets, butter and a secret blend of spices and herbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Hutchings uses scallops, large shrimp and fish fillets, but other options like oysters, lobster tails, crabs, mussels and clams are perfectly acceptable.

From Salon Apr. 6, 2026

These cans contained fillets from four species collected over a 42-year span in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

I’ll stop at Gelson’s, and they’ve got two grass-fed fillets that are relatively reasonable.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

Back in the bow he laid the two fillets of fish out on the wood with the flying fish beside them.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

A few days later, Naiser headed home to Louisville, Ky., after a stop in Michigan, where he dropped off the fish—49 pounds, 63.5 inches—to be filleted and mounted.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.

From Barron's Nov. 21, 2025

I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is that Scott finally filleted his reputation in full over this, a trolly Rasmussen poll.

From Slate Feb. 27, 2023

Practiced and efficient, she filleted and skinned the snakes in a matter of minutes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2022

He filleted it on the deck while Hatsue caught another on a hand line.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

At first, the farewell - and then the filleting.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2025

Remove any remaining white pith from each piece with a sharp knife and a filleting motion.

From Seattle Times Mar. 22, 2022

But those were mostly the function of an offense unable to hit shots, not a filleting of one of the NBA’s top defenses, as Adebayo had done.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 12, 2021

Five fish cutters worked alongside one another, gutting, scaling and filleting just-purchased seafood, from 10-inch bream to burly grouper and hog snapper longer than an adult’s arm.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2021

By the time four bells struck, Sefia was exhausted, but she could wield her Vision with the precision of a filleting knife.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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