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Recent Examples of ham
Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
Other offerings include Jules’ filthy hot ham and roll and Marvin’s chili.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2023
Flopping Is a Welcome Sideshow: Basketball stars from Nikola Jokic to Kyle Lowry are hamming up their reactions to even the slightest contact, writes our columnist.
—James Hill, New York Times, 3 June 2023
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Noun
Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and ham prove that letuice doesn't always deserve a place in salads.
—Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2024
Other offerings include Jules’ filthy hot ham and roll and Marvin’s chili.
—Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
The five-person group appears to be posing for the camera, hamming up their respective jobs.
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2023
Flopping Is a Welcome Sideshow: Basketball stars from Nikola Jokic to Kyle Lowry are hamming up their reactions to even the slightest contact, writes our columnist.
—James Hill, New York Times, 3 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ham
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A little too close, as Nathan Lane, playing Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, presents with a hammy wink that crushes any notion of subtext.Lucy Ford, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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The brakes are crisp, the steering is tight but not hammy, and speed is your friend on the straightaway.Josh Max, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Hamstring pain can be sharp or cause tightness in the back of your thigh.Sayaka Blickenderfer, PhD, Health, 23 Nov. 2024
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Absences: Matus Kmet (thigh) is expected to be out.Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 1 Nov. 2024
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The smart money is on those with a long-term vision, capable of acting in the best interest of the future, instead of the compulsions of the moment, which will eventually delineate the posers and the professionals.Parijat Banerjee, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Yet Barnet is skeptical of activism, depicting environmentalists as posers and lambasting the feminist movement.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
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Higgins joined the Navy in 1939 and served as a radioman at Pearl Harbor, a Hawaii naval base on Oahu island, assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes.Kara Nelson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
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Higgins was a radioman assigned to a patrol squadron of seaplanes based at the Hawaii naval base when Japanese planes began dropping bombs on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.CBS News, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
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On its app homepage, JD has begun aping Pinduoduo by emphasizing discounts.Lavender Au, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2024
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Above all, those kids who come from the suburbs didn’t ape the Americans but chose their own narrative path, going much higher in quality.Marcello Junior Dino, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2024
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Screen Door Portland's iconic chicken and waffles joint is hosting its first Thanksgiving meal this year at its NW location, with all the traditional fare available a la carte, plus roasted salmon and a pork shank braised in red wine.Kale Williams, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
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Other dishes come from Federici family recipes, including milanese con osso (a classic veal shank stew), a delicate vitello tonnato and the decadent layers of artichokes and potatoes in the filet millefeuille, a classic of Roman cuisine.Ann Abel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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The sassy pink-and-gray calf quickly took over the internet as the zoo shared videos of Moo Deng biting her keepers and bathing in streams of water.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Instead, Justin Fields went 4-2 while Russell Wilson recovered from a calf injury, and Wilson has since won two straight in his return to as starter.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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The actor told People he was diagnosed with the Stage 3 cancer in October, during treatment for an upper-respiratory infection.Justin Curto, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Ham.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ham. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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