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a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried a breaded veal cutlet

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Recent Examples of cutlet Fieri’s tenders are wide and flat, resembling pounded and breaded chicken cutlets. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024 Use your five-spice blend as a wing rub, as breading for pork cutlets, in a fragrant mix for cocktail peanuts, or any of the abovementioned recipes. Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2024 Image DeVito, who starred at Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J., became a brief sensation last year by winning three straight games and revealing his love of jersey-style chicken cutlets. David Waldstein, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024 And frozen turkeys take many more hours of thawing than, say, chicken cutlets or a pork tenderloin. Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cutlet
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Noun
  • Who doesn’t dream of making beeswax candles, topping naked cakes with berries and writing on labels with picture-perfect penmanship?
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Insider tip Amy Taylor from the Landmark Trust says that no one should visit Wales without trying homemade local Welsh cakes, the currant-spiked riff on a scone that’s synonymous with the country.
    Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
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  • After its win for a Angus smash patty with American cheese, bacon jam, grilled onions and Cowy sauce, owners Guillermo Felipe, Carlos Reveron and Daniel Machicao were able to open the first standalone Cowy Burger in Wynwood.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Get the recipe > Pimento Cheese Burgers Skip the ketchup and mustard and slather your burger patties with pimento cheese instead.
    SAVEUR Editors, Saveur, 5 Feb. 2025
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  • As more guests arrived—including Kaitlyn Dever, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Dominic Sessa—the party continued in full swing, with guests mingling over wagyu taquitos, prawn croquettes, and endless flutes of Champagne.
    Paul Chi, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Here are the restaurants participating in Dine Downtown and their menus: Frog & Slim 1420 16th St. This New American restaurant’s Dine Downtown menu offers a choice of starters: goat cheese croquettes or white anchovy caesar salad.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025

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“Cutlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cutlet. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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