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meaty

[mee-tee] / ˈmi ti /


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Does someone have to be left out of a squad or given a meaty suspension for the penny to drop?

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

If you’re inspired, you can try out our new MarketWatch retirement questionnaire and ask a good, meaty question of your own.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Stirred into a mushroom stroganoff, it amplifies the fungi’s naturally meaty qualities.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

YouTube is awash with videos of freaked-out Midwesterners batting the meaty fish from their boats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

I avoided the gross meaty brown blobs and settled on a green blob, an orange blob, and a red blob.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

Acquaintances can drift through conversational banalities or choose to engage in meatier, more satisfying subjects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“A defining example is how Joyce Chen created Peking ravioli with a meatier filling to appeal to the region’s Italian-influenced tastes, even using the name ‘ravioli’ as a familiar reference point,” says Doo.

From Salon ● May 3, 2026

And yet: If the White House’s furniture, paintings, and wallpaper inspire the fervent scrutiny of the nation’s interior decorators, it is because meatier changes have been so rare.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

Minor parts, including in Henry IV Part 1 and As You Like It, preceded a meatier role as Alan Downie in the 1983 production of Slab Boys, with Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

“Aaron,” I say, my heart thundering, my breath catching and turning into meatier and meatier coughs.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Julia Garner, who plays one of the film’s primary villains, the Silver Surfer, shockingly has some of the meatiest character writing in the entire film.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025

Dr Zelenitsky said that finding only the legs suggested that this teenage gorgosaurus "seems to have wanted the drumsticks - probably because that's the meatiest part".

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023

The young Gorgosaurus also seems to have been choosy, Zelenitsky says, because it ate only the two hindlegs of each Citipes, the meatiest part of the prey.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

“Odds Against Tomorrow,” a naturalist film noir from 1959, is the meatiest of them — and his last picture for more than a decade, too.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

One of the "meatiest" stories for boys that has seen the light for many years.

From Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace


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