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[saw-see] / ˈsɔ si /


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Others have reported difficulty listening to chewing, groaning and one character’s saucy burp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

It’s a rare spot that excels at both minimalist nigiri, where the fish is the star, and saucy, more elaborate rolls.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025

Berwick spent more than 25 years building Bravo into a saucy reality TV hit-making machine, with such shows as “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” “Real Housewives” and “Love Island.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

In anticipation of the holiday season, McDonald’s is bringing back an iconic saucy sandwich — and offering a mega-sized jug of its signature sauce for the first time ever.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024

So I stared at my bird, the beautiful details of the new feathers, the fernlike lashes along the lids, the saucy bristles at the base of the beak.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Green has a toothier texture and fresher flavor; red is saucier with dusky, earthen undertones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

It is launching improvements to its burgers including softer buns that are toasted and saucier Big Macs.

From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023

Just as everyone in a restaurant kitchen has their roles to play, from saucier to sommelier, so too are roles assigned at holiday dinner.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022

A “true” regulation-size Neapolitan pizza can be broken down by ingredient to the gram: 60 to 80 grams of approved tomatoes on a margherita, and 70 to 100 on a marinara, which is slightly saucier.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022

There was one other individual belonging to the family circle, larger even than Bessie, stronger and saucier even than Rudolph, and but little older than Kitty.

From Po-No-Kah An Indian Tale of Long Ago by Mary Mapes Dodge

Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

June 27 Jason Isbell / Lucinda Williams Isbell is both alt-country’s sauciest Twitter wit and one of its finest, heartrending songwriters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2021

At 66, John Scofield remains one of jazz’s sauciest improvisers.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018

Shirky’s was only the sauciest form of an argument I heard whenever I mentioned to my techno-utopian friends that I identified with Carr’s distress.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018

Why, here 's a man now would fright impudence >From sauciest beggars.

From The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster


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