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Recent Examples of enchilada
The only enchiladas are chicken, with first-rate mole sauce, spicy tomatillo-jalapeno salsa verde or sour cream sauce, or in a platter with all three.
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
To make the enchiladas, dip softened corn tortillas in the creamy salsa before filling and rolling each one like a cigar.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
There's also a vegetarian menu, entrees of seafood, steak or chicken, fajitas, enchiladas, and house specials.
—Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2025
Chicken enchiladas with spicy salsa verde The lunch and dinner menus don’t have either a combination plate or beef enchiladas.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
To make the enchiladas, dip softened corn tortillas in the creamy salsa before filling and rolling each one like a cigar.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
There's also a vegetarian menu, entrees of seafood, steak or chicken, fajitas, enchiladas, and house specials.
—Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2025
Chicken enchiladas with spicy salsa verde The lunch and dinner menus don’t have either a combination plate or beef enchiladas.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enchilada
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Made with a thick slathering of salty, white cheese with a good schmear of guava jam, all encrusted in a buttery puff pastry-like dough, the guava and cheese combo hit sweet and salty in all the right places, though admittedly, the cheese was a little too thick for me.—
Kaitlyn Rosati,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Ready in a mere 15 minutes, the key ingredient that helps this sandwich sing is a schmear of Dijon mustard.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 May 2025
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By this time, Akasha had found a contact willing to sell him jurema bark in bulk.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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Acquired in bulk for pennies on the dollar from hospitals and collection agencies, the debt by its very nature belongs to those least able to pay, so there’s no way to request or apply for the relief.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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In Huang’s view, the export controls not only hurt Nvidia, but the whole of the U.S.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
28 May 2025
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The whole of his training, his instructor tells him, will take place in a simulator.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025
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Find the report in its entirety and learn more about this initiative at orkin.com.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 May 2025
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Finally, at the Holistic level, leaders perceive systems in their entirety, integrating opposites, transcending paradox, and innovating by embracing complexity.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Across the United States in immigration courts from New York to Seattle this week, Homeland Security officials are ramping up enforcement actions in what appears to be a coordinated dragnet testing out new legal levers deployed by President Trump’s administration to carry out mass arrests.—
Joshua Goodman,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Treating dogs as child substitutes and seeking out extreme infantile traits in them raises several ethical concerns that have led to the mass breeding of some unhealthy traits over time.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 May 2025
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“Enchilada.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enchilada. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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