plateful

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Flag isn’t like the Baxters’ other animals: He can’t pull a plow, track a bear, provide milk, or become a plateful of cracklings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food's smell, taste, texture and color.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024

Alexandra herself worked on “getting fuller on less,” trying to limit each meal to a single plateful.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2023

Or try warming up a frozen dinner and turning it out onto a plateful of leafy greens.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

As soon as they ate one plateful, they filled their plates with snow again, and Grandma poured more syrup on it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder