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puff

[puhf] / pʌf /






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A sheet of frozen puff pastry is added on top of the dish and baked in the oven.

From Salon

They can’t recreate every wind puff and ocean eddy, so they divide the world into a 3-D grid and generate myriad variables for each box, from soil temperature to ocean salinity.

From The Wall Street Journal

A puff of smoke near the gun is visible after each shot.

From BBC

What Nim liked best about cooking bread was watching the dough she’d mixed from dry flour, yeast, and water puff into warm, fresh bread.

From Literature

“She’s Captain America,” Bowe said, puffing out her chest and sitting up straighter.

From Los Angeles Times