spoonful
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She works as a healthcare clown for Boston Children’s Hospital on the side and continues to live by the clowning code: be open-minded and take life with a spoonful of levity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It is in our nature to see something new and spit it out like we are 2 years old and PepsiCo has offered us a spoonful of broccoli.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I like to immerse myself and have a real experience and hopefully make it funny so it’s like a spoonful of sugar for the audience as they learn something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Whisk it with red wine vinegar or lemon juice, add a spoonful of Dijon mustard, and suddenly your everyday vinaigrette tastes layered and complex.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
So for her next spoonful she breathed through her nose.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
“I’d eat one or two spoonfuls, and then add the toppings,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He had two spoonfuls, Mr. Valdez, 31, said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
We put generous spoonfuls onto our white rice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Her eyes were solid green, like all nature had been condensed into a few spoonfuls of organic matter.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
