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Problem two: it's not just the opponents you could predict who are in a stew.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023

I genuinely might have been fooled that it was an actual chunk of roast if it were in a stew or already shredded on a plate.

From The Verge • Aug. 25, 2022

Unlike many industrial chemicals, enzymes work at relatively low temperatures and are choosy about which molecule they interact with—enabling an enzyme to target a single plastic in a stew of polymers.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 1, 2021

In his 2007 graphic novel “Shortcomings,” race becomes a live wire, as its antihero, a Gen-X Japanese-American slacker in Berkeley, utterly loses his cool in a stew of interracial dating and infidelities.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2020

The fish and greens are already cooking in a stew, but that will be for supper.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins




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