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cream

[kreem] / krim /




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For instance, it can be used as a food propellant for whipped cream dispensers or to boost auto engines, and is sold in canisters and tanks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The senior official also said China agreed to lower tariffs for roughly 4 billion euros of EU goods shipped to China including auto parts, footwear, ice cream and olive oil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Sold as powder, extract, paste, or frozen puree, ube is easily mixed into coffee, pastries, ice cream, spreads and even make-up.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Every morning at 6am, 10-year-old Rafeef and her younger brother get ready for school, putting on their cream and brown uniforms.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

When the toaster dings, she brings my perfectly light brown bagel over with the cream cheese container and sits across from me.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

It’s also harder to apply some treatments such as creams to hard-to-reach areas like the back, so doctors often prescribe oral medications.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

On social media, vacationers are showing off their “pharmacy hauls” from across the continent, extolling the virtues of E.U.-made creams and serums and turning drugstores into can’t-miss destinations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"It's not all ice creams and sandy beaches and turquoise seas," says Dominic Wilkes, a headteacher who moved from Greater Manchester to Bude in North Cornwall.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

His shop would typically sell up to 400 ice creams a day.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Justice Strauss had on a dreamy expression, as if she were about to be crowned queen, instead of just having some powders and creams smeared on her face.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

We’re big on breakfast for dinner, so maybe we’d have some poached eggs on toast or poached eggs on creamed spinach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Then we went to the far north side of Chicago to a Lithuanian neighborhood to play some grizzled old guys upstairs at the top of an old, smoky bar. They creamed us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

If you’re not in the mood for a hulking sirloin — and if just creamed spinach and a frosted martini feel like insufficient ballast — skip the burger.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Sink into one of the plush leather banquettes to nosh on steakhouse classics like steak tartare, creamed kale and the most incredible double cheeseburger topped with in-house American cheese and dill aioli.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

I did not finish my creamed corn, broccoli, Rice Krispies, or peanut butter sandwiches.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

“I spend most of my time rubbing creams all over my body. … Face cream, eye cream, foot cream, just constantly creaming myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

The addition of one substance doubled the available latex and that yield was increased by 12-fold when a creaming agent was added for purification.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

Using caster sugar or superfine sugar makes a big difference in cakes, like in this Pistachio Cake with Lemon and Rosewater, in which those quick-dissolving properties make easier work of creaming together butter and sugar.

From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022

Matt Downie, chief executive of the homeless charity Crisis, has called it "a really Wild West system where the winners are the people creaming off very large profits".

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022

It was then that she went through her beauty routine, a cleansing, creaming ritual, which on Saturday nights included washing her hair.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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