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dish

[dish] / dɪʃ /


NOUN
main part of meal
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Modantus is his name, his head a skull, with brassy adornments ascending like a satellite dish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The contrast is what makes this feel like a dish rather than a vegetable dutifully placed beside dinner.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

The bear had no water dish and relied on a hose for drinking water.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

And that’s a valuable dish to serve—“Seinfeld” survived TV’s transition to streaming shockingly well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But sometimes, while playing house, Sam would have an urge to race around with the pretend dinner in its plastic dish, and bomb the animals instead of feeding them nicely.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

Most Jewish Americans don’t keep kosher; even most who avoid pork and shellfish don’t go to the effort of maintaining separate dishes and utensils for meat and dairy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Order traditional Moroccan dishes to share so you can try a little of everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But Airbnb's new rules mean hosts can no longer ask guests to do jobs normally carried out by cleaners, including washing and putting away dishes, stripping beds and taking rubbish off site.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Detectives then found a pattern of invoices, often for food items inconsistent with school meals, but matching dishes on the menu of his private catering business Flava 2 You, said Borges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

What if the glass fragments could be pieced together into the original cups, vases, dishes, and other glassware?

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

The ICO recently dished out a £14m fine to online platform Reddit, finding it had unlawfully used children's personal information and failed to adequately check the age of its users.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

In his lawsuit, Cipriani alleged that, during months of on-again, off-again conversations, Shell dished sensitive information to him, including that Paramount was poised to strike a $7.7-billion deal to bring UFC fights to Paramount+.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

She also dished out some tips for renovating your own space, telling fans, “You don’t have to do it all in one day. Start with the key pieces and build outward.”

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

The collapse of Samsung Electronics' talks with its largest labour union dished another blow to Seoul's AI drive, with company shares falling as much as 6.1 percent, Bloomberg reported.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

The man went into a little room at the end of the kitchen, where he hummed a familiar song, dished out rice into many bowls, and brought them out on a tray.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

No other known donor comes close to dishing out more funding.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Plus, the Pentagon is dishing money to high-tech defense startups, and JD and Usha Vance welcome a new son.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

There are a host of jobs that need dishing out - like who will run committees, something which needs to be sorted between the parties.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

Smart returned for the final two games, dishing out 17 assists while the Lakers tried to keep their offense afloat without Doncic and Reaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

I play facing the hoop and either dishing off or busting a move for the basket.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers


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