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fillet

[fil-it, fi-ley] / ˈfɪl ɪt, fɪˈleɪ /


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My second twist might incite even more gasps: Instead of tuna, bake a handsome fillet of Steelhead trout.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

The perfectly red fillet cut sizzles in the pan, its juices releasing a meaty aroma.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2025

These oily fish contain essential nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3 but some are lost from our diets when we just eat the salmon fillet.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

Both wild-caught and farmed salmon can be sustainable, but determining the environmental impact of a fillet isn't simple.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2024

“It’s a solar hibachi,” Miss Ohio explained, serving up a perfectly done fillet.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

First devised in 1828 by English grocer John Osborn, Gentleman’s Relish is a punchy blend of mashed anchovy fillets, butter and a secret blend of spices and herbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Hutchings uses scallops, large shrimp and fish fillets, but other options like oysters, lobster tails, crabs, mussels and clams are perfectly acceptable.

From Salon Apr. 6, 2026

These cans contained fillets from four species collected over a 42-year span in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

I’ll stop at Gelson’s, and they’ve got two grass-fed fillets that are relatively reasonable.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 3, 2025

He turned then and placed the two flying fish inside the two fillets of fish and putting his knife back in its sheath, he worked his way slowly back to the bow.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

A few days later, Naiser headed home to Louisville, Ky., after a stop in Michigan, where he dropped off the fish—49 pounds, 63.5 inches—to be filleted and mounted.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.

From Barron's Nov. 21, 2025

Ezra Klein gets filleted on the regular—same with Maureen Dowd.

From Slate Oct. 7, 2025

Practiced and efficient, she filleted and skinned the snakes in a matter of minutes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2022

Nita filleted another eel and dropped its carcass into the bucket between them.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Like, even after a lifetime of hooking, catching, gutting, filleting, smoking and eating the fish, he can’t quite believe how wondrous they really are.

From Seattle Times Jun. 24, 2023

But those were mostly the function of an offense unable to hit shots, not a filleting of one of the NBA’s top defenses, as Adebayo had done.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 12, 2021

Five fish cutters worked alongside one another, gutting, scaling and filleting just-purchased seafood, from 10-inch bream to burly grouper and hog snapper longer than an adult’s arm.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2021

In the women’s draw it is being generated by a mix of old and young aspirants after the filleting of the top 10 which left only seventh seed Karolina Pliskova upright after six days.

From The Guardian Jul. 8, 2018

By the time four bells struck, Sefia was exhausted, but she could wield her Vision with the precision of a filleting knife.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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