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[blend] / blɛnd /






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A ruthless blend of silky flicks and slick off-the-ball movement that saw a dazed City caught several frames behind.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish possess some of the most sophisticated nervous systems in the animal kingdom, giving them remarkable abilities such as solving problems and rapidly changing their appearance to blend into their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Its narrow, labyrinthine streets are lined with stone buildings that blend Swahili, Arabic, Persian, Indian and European building styles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

I think it’s a perfect blend of broth and roast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Farmer was particularly seduced by the Creole language, a blend of French and various African languages, unique to Haiti.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The X-48, a scaled down model of an airliner that blends wing and fuselage to create a single lifting body, flew in 2007.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

In Denmark, history blends seamlessly with national identity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Inside, the modern farmhouse blends Dewan and Kazee’s contrasting design tastes, pairing sleek contemporary elements with warmer and more personal touches.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The newly transformed space designed by architect Vincent Van Duysen blends contemporary Italian design with Old Hollywood heritage, featuring a Chambolle stone exterior and a custom glass table designed by Andrea Mancuso.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

They are won by crews, and great crews are carefully balanced blends of both physical abilities and personality types.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The blended vegetables thicken the broth, while the rest keep enough texture to remind you what you’re eating.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

In these works he blended the ethos of European Art Informel and Art Brut while also integrating Pop elements from that emerging American style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The overwhelmingly positive response to Peña’s rendition of the Morrissey-penned tune let him know that people had an appetite to see the Smiths and mariachi blended together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Hoping to inspire her UK followers to experiment with the vegetable, she made a sweetcorn latte inspired by a frappé drink she'd had on her trip, using coconut milk, blended sweetcorn and espresso.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Here, Darwin reverted to an old idea: the instructions from the male and female simply met in the embryo and blended together like paints or colors.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The church is a “serious house on serious earth ... In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, are recognised, and robed as destinies,” he writes.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2015

In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A soft hope blent with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Presently a voice blent with the rich tones of the instrument; it was a lady who sang, and very sweet her notes were.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

De Barbeyrac sees it as "a game about passing something on", one that older players will want to share with their children, blending nostalgia for one generation with discovery for another.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The collection will play on young Chinese people’s interest in blending traditional and modern motifs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Inside, the residence is equally impressive, blending luxury finishes with warm architectural details.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Chaplin was a master of blending political and social commentary with broad comedy.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026

The Doctorita starts clanking around in the kitchen, blending together bananas and sugar and milk in a mixer that shrieks like the wind.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau


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