cream
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And the cream of Africa comes here: Sixty five percent of Nigeria-born adults in the U.S. have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 20% of adults in Nigeria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Tidy general stores, ice cream parlors and a Main Street lined with striped awnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
A Burbank landlord trying to land a trendy ice cream shop tenant got a critical assist from the city that helped seal the deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
I studied the pastries while pretending not to listen: tea-infused buns knotted with candied citrus, laminated pastry layered with spiced cream cheese, craggy oat muffins dotted with boysenberry preserves.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
“I would trade anything for a cream cheese sandwich,” he had said.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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She co-owns Sweet Emporium where she is busy serving customers sweets and ice creams in the hot weather.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
His shop would typically sell up to 400 ice creams a day.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Ice creams: from the unbeatable to the unlickable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
So I went ahead and swapped my normal creams containing high amounts of glycerin, aloe and other plant-based ingredients for tallow-based alternatives for a two-week period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
We didn’t say anything as Dad paid for our ice creams, or while he grabbed way too many napkins, like every other time we’d gone there.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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“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
Smith flogged anything short and creamed drives whenever the ball was full.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
In quick succession, he downed large jars of pickle juice, hot dog water, creamed corn and hot sauce.
From Salon ● May 31, 2025
Little Pete is going to great lengths to avoid dancing at all, including chugging 15 gallons of creamed corn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
Hash browns, toast crusts, noodles, creamed corn, todo eso.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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"I have to undergo a lot of treatment every day, which takes three to five hours and involves bath emollients, creaming and exfoliating," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025
“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
During the process of creaming, you're incorporating air into the mixture, while also combining the butter and sugar.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2021
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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