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stew

[stoo, styoo] / stu, stju /




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I like the sundubu-jjigae, spicy tofu stew at Surawon Tofu House.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

The group’s primal musical stew came from thoroughly American ingredients: ragged blues, chugging rock, narcotic country and hoarse soul.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

With little energy available to disrupt it, the omega pattern can persist for days -- or weeks -- allowing heat to stew and temperatures to intensify beneath it.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Reviews for the show have been largely positive, with Empire describing it as "an utterly insane stew that somehow makes perfect sense".

From BBC May 27, 2026

Hunger set in and I used two small pieces of the dogs’ fat and mixed it with half the ravioli for a stew.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

When dried and salted, guitarfish is used in soups and stews across Ghana.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

In Burbank, family-run Tun Lahmajo delves into Armenian homestyle dishes, including flatbreads, cold salads, roasted meats, a range of soups and herbed stews.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

He says he cooks chillis and stews to take to work, avoids impulse purchases and tries to keep spending on a night out below £20.

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

Sal stews morosely amid bursts of threatening belligerence that Sonny tries to tamp down.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

He stews and sweats in a jacket he won’t take off.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

I take a tapa of rabo de toro, a stewed tail so tender it forgets it was ever muscle.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

Crucially, I discovered I wasn’t using nearly enough wine or cream when I stewed mushrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

We indulge in not one but two meats: carrilleras, stewed pork cheeks with red peppers, and perdiz escabechada, cold partridge preserved in vinegar and herbs with a crisp salad.

From Salon Nov. 8, 2025

For six months, he had stewed on his first encounter with Paddy Donovan.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2025

Here was God’s plenty, all right, he thought bitterly as he stared—liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

I considered basting the tomatoes in butter and stewing them down with miso until soft and glossy.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

The English players were still stewing four minutes later when Maradona proved that he was more than just a cheat.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Authorities allege in their brief that he was stewing over being in the neighborhood of his ex-lover and listening to a French rap song that evoked images of fire in its music video.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2026

"I wrote it on Monday because I'd been stewing in anger about ICE," Terrell posted on Instagram, adding he was stunned by the reception it received.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

This much is for sure, nobody was pounding on drums or stewing up a goat for us.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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