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Though its smell is hardly appetizing, the cloth is surrounded by a group of women, each with her hands on the folds to knead, slap, punch and beat the cloth into shape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Workers don't like to wake up early to knead dough by hand, Mr Hur says softly.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025

The machine itself rolled lozenge dough and pressed them into perfect discs, thus eliminating the use of mortar and pestle to manually knead, roll and cut out the dough.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024

Nouman said his first job is to start a small fire to cook breakfast, while his wife and daughters knead dough for flatbread and then wash their utensils and metal cooking griddle.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

She fed some wood chips to the brazier on the afterdeck, stirred the coals with a blackened blade, and began to knead the dough for the morning biscuits.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

This uneven motion effectively kneads the molten rock and helps generate bubbles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

He kneads pizza dough before cranking out several dozen tortillas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

As she kneads a ball of rice with her hands, mixing it with the lentils and spinach before feeding it to one of her children, she explains that even buying bread is a struggle.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2022

Whereas a traditional pizzeria kneads dough in the morning and lets it rise until dinnertime, the new procedure combines leavening and baking into a single step.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 22, 2022

She often cries silently, letting the tears slide down her face, not bothering to dry them as she stirs a pot of lentil soup or kneads the dough for potato-and.cheese borekas.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Looking a bit unsure of herself, the Princess of Wales kneaded the dough, applied a filling and cut out the pasta shapes as Ivan Lampredi, a chef, assisted her.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

I’d selected gentle intensity, so Aescape kneaded slowly and deliberately around my scapula at first, then applied light rolling pressure along my spine, mid-back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

This is then cooked in a giant pot and slowly kneaded with a wooden stick until it thickens.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

A toasted rice aroma hangs around the factory line, where rice is combined with small plastic beads, heated and kneaded before being extruded in thin rods that are cooled and cut into tiny brown pellets.

From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023

I heard the dough hit the counter and her little grunts as she kneaded it and rolled it out.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Cooks in the royal kitchens also advanced the art of naan-making by introducing specialised kneading techniques and adding yeast - a rare ingredient at the time - to make the bread softer and fluffier.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

"You repurpose existing skills -- using an oven, measuring ingredients, kneading dough -- and combine them with new ones, like whipping batter and making frosting, to create something entirely different."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025

While the crossings remain closed, life has regained a semblance of normality, with bakers kneading bread, fruit and vegetable sellers wheeling out their carts, and customers frequenting shops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

He oiled himself with warm, peppered coconut oil, kneading his old, loose flesh that stretched willingly off his bones like chewing gum.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy