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Recent Examples of fillet
Working with a regional fish wholesaler, DNR collected more than 2,100 snakeheads and other invasive fish from the lift and sent them off to be cleaned, filleted and offered to local food banks.
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
Place the salmon fillets on the sheet pan, skin side down, and drizzle half of the lemon juice over the salmon.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2024
Salmon BLTs Adding salmon fillets to a basic BLT base transforms the sandwich from a simple lunch to a luxe treat.
—Anna Rodriguez, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
The catfish is now filleted and in Courtright’s freezer.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 30 May 2024
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Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2024
Place the salmon fillets on the sheet pan, skin side down, and drizzle half of the lemon juice over the salmon.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2024
Salmon BLTs Adding salmon fillets to a basic BLT base transforms the sandwich from a simple lunch to a luxe treat.
—Anna Rodriguez, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
The catfish is now filleted and in Courtright’s freezer.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 30 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fillet
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The actor wore her dark hair pulled to one side and braided down, stopping the braid with a few inches to spare and leaving the rest of her hair loose.Kara Nesvig, Allure, 19 Dec. 2024
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On Beka, hair braiding continued to be this daily bonding time with many of the women.EW.com, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
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Here’s a peek at the new flavors and some of the ingredients that inspired them: Lemon curd & whey This light and citrusy flavor uses whey as a substitute for lemon juice to make lemon curd that ribbons throughout the ice cream base.oregonlive, oregonlive, 24 May 2023
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Introduce the color in small doses: a throw on the couch, ribbon on a wreath, trim around a lampshade, or even gift wrap on the packages.Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2022
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Two opposition party presidential candidates, working in tandem with an ever-supine propaganda media, tarred and feathered him as a historical threat to the Constitution—as a crypto-Nazi who, if once again given the reins of power, might really burn it all down.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Read: What Trump got right about national security But many of the outsiders and iconoclasts Trump has nominated for top posts have questionable qualifications, and his pledge to purge the civil service and military in order to feather both with loyalists who will do his bidding goes too far.Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Add to that figure another 48% in government expenditures that Trump has deemed politically untouchable: Social Security, Medicare and Defense.Robert Pearl, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Tommy will surely need at least another season to figure it out.EW.com, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Today, that plant is one of thousands on the grounds, a place where monarch ferns frill around the auburn necks of melinonii philodendrons and buttercream and magenta orchids hang like pendants from a jabuticabeira, its spreading copper limbs blistered with purple fruit.Michael Snyder Pedro Kok, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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The collection, which will surely be talked about as the best of the entire week, was an unflinching reminder that a serious depth of femininity — the frilled, bedazzled, artistic kind — should never be mistaken for weakness.Gabrielle Korn, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2020
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Before three people died from eating a homemade Christmas cake believed to have been laced with arsenic, other family members noticed an off-putting flavor, authorities said, according to a recent news report.Nicole Acosta, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Resting amid a 30-acre parcel laced with towering oaks and pines, in the exclusive gated enclave of Tahquitz Shadow Estates, the stucco and steel-roof structure was completed in the late 1990s and offers four bedrooms and an equal number of baths.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025
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Instead, Peak suggests storing your knives in a drawer or utilizing vertical space and installing a magnetic knife strip on your kitchen wall and hanging your knives.Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, the rescue's vets determined that the large tumor hanging from the dog's abdomen — which sometimes touched the ground when Snow White stood — was connected to one of the canine's mammary glands.Kelli Bender, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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But some wear black, tan or red aprons or have special symbols embroidered on them.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
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Brody walked the carpet in a maroon suit and black dress shoes, while Chapman opted for a blue top embroidered with flowers and a sheer black skirt.Ariana Quihuiz, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Fillet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillet. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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