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spoon

verb as in neck

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“I don’t like trying to spoon feed people with only the news that we think is good for them.”

Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons.

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The honey closest to the spoon moves faster, while the honey touching the walls of the jar moves more slowly because of friction.

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She had stacks of silver serving platters and mountains of spoons, some of which dated back to my grandparents’ catering business.

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Perhaps the most profound story here belongs to Jacob Chaim, who, during his years in a Nazi forced-labor camp, secretly crafted a small tin spoon that would come to affirm his sense of humanity.

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

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