oily

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These targets can be achieved by eating more oily fish, such as salmon or mackerel, or through supplementation where needed.

From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025

Walker agrees and likens it to the fact you can't remove an oily or dirty mark from clothes with just water, you need detergent too.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025

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.”

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Yord turned around and gave her an oily gap-toothed smile.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat