spread
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Roll it out cinnamon-roll style, spread with cream cheese, Parmesan, herbs and hot giardiniera, then coil, slice and nestle the spirals together in a buttered skillet.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spread between the cost of producing a barrel of gasoline and the cost of the crude oil needed to produce it — known among traders as the “crack spread” — has widened sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
As the number of gluons increases, the proton's momentum becomes spread among more of them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
California’s law was passed following a large measles outbreak centered at Disneyland that resulted in 131 cases in California alone, and spread to six other states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Pain spread all over me and on me and in me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
“The answer may be: more methionine capacity, a reversion in polyamide spreads and another round of cost savings as the company adapts to intense competition and slow demand growth,” Bray says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The measles spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, talks, coughs or sneezes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"These results suggest a pattern where evolutionary innovation begins in deeper environments and later spreads toward the coast," Evans said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Combined with high winds, that makes for fire that spreads too quickly to be extinguished.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
This illustration spreads over two pages, and it appears to have been added as an afterthought as the book went through the press.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Two days later, satellite imagery shows the slick had doubled in size and was spreading north-west through the strait towards Qeshm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Emergency services said some of the blazes around Stourbridge were set deliberately in grasslands before spreading.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
The researchers trained neural networks using videos that showed dye spreading through brain tissue over time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Flock surveillance cameras are spreading across the country.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026
I could have been spreading on this jam a little thick.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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