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Great British Chefs specified that tonka’s “most distinctive feature” is their “enormous potency — heady vanilla flavours, with oily clove aromas, and perfumed magnolia, sandalwood notes.”

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It slid easily under the oily meat, again and again and again.

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She pointed to the pond, which no longer had the foul odor or the oily sheen of the canal despite being just a few steps away.

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I’m team salsa macha — toasty, oily and laced with peanuts and chiles.

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Victoria's diet included cod liver oil, lard, salmon oil and oily fish like sardines, mackerel and salmon.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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