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sugar

[shoog-er] / ˈʃʊg ər /


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I frosted the cake with a Swiss meringue buttercream that required bringing egg whites and sugar together over a pot of simmering water and then whisking it into stiff peaks.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Profits from sugar, cotton and coffee grown there helped fuel the global Dutch empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

It claimed hypoglycemia - low blood sugar - in the frail and elderly is not as vanishingly rare as was once thought, suggesting the jury had been misinformed.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“It’s cranberry, oatmeal and gluten-free. Who knows if there’s any sugar in there?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“How about a mint? The sugar might help.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Ethel had been found in a coma at 05:00 and her first injection of glucose to increase her blood sugars was given at 06:15.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

They are typically made with refined fats, oils, sugars, starches, salts, and other additives designed to improve flavor, texture, and shelf life, often while lowering nutritional quality.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

"An hour or two of exposure is enough to trigger glycosylation, or the binding of smoke to the sugars in the grapes," said oenology consultant Clement Prelat, who is advising winemakers in the area.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Sodha says that limiting each plant to 750ml of water a day produces "rich, highly concentrated sugars and aromas instead of water-logged, bland fruits".

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Rather than consuming both sugars equally, the E. coli cells had selectively consumed glucose first.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Nah, nah, nah. I used to use sugared hot water, before the days of hair lacquer. And I couldn't afford hair lacquer, anyway."

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

Dip each in the turbinado sugar to coat one side; set sugared side up on the prepared baking sheet, nine per sheet.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

“While he can wag a finger as vigorously as the rest of his Boomer cohort, gentleness and twinkle have always sugared the Croz pill,” Eccleston wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Each is dressed with a sugared flower of herbs like little works of art.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2022

Even the “junk drawer” in Park Slope was stocked with things like banana chips and sugared almonds.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

"The sugaring season has come early this year and is still underway," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024

I do know from maple sugaring with my friend and his 89-year-old uncle that changing climatic conditions are making sugaring more difficult.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2022

But she soon found that before she could provide services for clients, and earn more, she was required to attend trainings on such things as sugaring to remove unwanted hair and lash and brow maintenance.

From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2022

Van den Berg remains optimistic that technological advances the modern sugaring operation affords can provide a buffer.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2022

Nokomis said all of these things while stirring syrup, sugaring, constantly checking and rechecking the fires, making extra makuks and cones of birchbark to hold the sugar they would have that year.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich




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