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as in to distort
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
it turns out the pharmaceutical researcher had cooked her data
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as in to happen
to take place
wondered what was cooking when several police cars pulled up to their neighbor's house
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Recent Examples of cook
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2024
On the menu, try the seafood ravioli, grilled seabass, or rib-eye steak cooked to perfection.
—Essence, 17 Dec. 2024
Peter Burke, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
The food stylist, cook, and writer is a veteran of the British food scene.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Holland also revealed his favorite vegetarian dish to cook is chili con lentils, a spin on chili con carne.
—Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2024
On the menu, try the seafood ravioli, grilled seabass, or rib-eye steak cooked to perfection.
—Essence, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
Stir in the garlic and cook until the garlic is fragrant, less than 1 minute.
—Peter Burke, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2024
The food stylist, cook, and writer is a veteran of the British food scene.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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This inflates the cost to taxpayers and distorts the insurance market and premium calculations.Steve Brozak, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Russian evil will not break Ukraine and will not distort Christmas.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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His biggest concern is what will happen if Trump follows through on his proposal to slap 10% to 20% tariffs on all imports and raise the levy on Chinese goods to 60%, from 10% to 25% that Trump imposed in his first term.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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Rich has no regrets about anything that’s happened between him and his brother over the more than three decades since the band formed.Charles Moss, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Many of the recipes below are from chef Thomas Keller of the French Laundry in Napa Valley, in addition to Per Se in New York and other fine-dining institutions.Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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If using a base, chef Coleman Jernigan opts for Minors which makes a variety of flavors (both vegetarian and meat-based) for all of your home cooking needs.Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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Cooper Union, which later accused RFR of misrepresenting its financial situation, seemed to think so, too.Kim Velsey, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
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In particular, Ozy co-founder and chief operating officer Samir Rao had misrepresented himself on a call with Goldman Sachs by pretending to be a YouTube executive, Alex Piper.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024
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Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania developed a model based on network theory to do just that, describing their work in a February paper published in the journal Physical Review Research.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
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From its deployment of renewable energy infrastructure to the planting of some 600 million trees, doing and being seen to be doing green things is intended to put Kyiv on the same environmental page as Brussels.David Vetter, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Fret not, there are still plenty of excellent options to party, luxuriate, dine or dance on New Year’s Eve in New York City.Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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There was little movement in the AP poll entering Week 9 thanks to a light slate of games during the holiday week.Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Cook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cook. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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