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meaty

[mee-tee] / ˈmi ti /


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She covered the song in 1975, choosing to cut the third verse and dial up the drama with meaty piano chords, slugging drums and a flourish of cymbals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Got one of biggest cheers from Newcastle fans for a meaty challenge on Tonali.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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

They beat their axe handles against their meaty hands.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

A crowd of about 50 supporters and curious locals meet the candidate at Donkey’s Place, a venerable deli that serves a meatier cheesesteak than more-famous shops in nearby Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

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

This allows for more of a mixed network of the proteins, fats and water, making them meatier and more appealing to consumers.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

But he will also preside over Petrobras’ oil boom and a period of growing gas imports, both of which will facilitate Brazil growing hunger for cheap flights, meatier diets and air-conditioned homes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

“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

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

No wonder the conversations among the women — round-robin exchanges between Tess and Kate, Alice and Quinn, Tess and Alice — are the meatiest nodes of “Flight.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

“The half-dozen longest, meatiest and most probing essays and articles presented here share the lasting power of Klay’s acclaimed fiction.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

Arrange drumsticks over top of mixture, with meatiest portions to the outer edge of utensil.

From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Mitzi Perdue




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