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His platform — a farrago of liberal and conservative views mashed up with a mess of conspiracy-laden pottage, isn’t easily categorized.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Some staple Nigerian dishes have gained popularity in the States, include Jollof rice, pounded yam and egusi, yam pottage (asaro) as well as rice and stew.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
In effect, for a mess of pottage, a public school sold an inflated but permanent artistic legacy to a private citizen.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
That is what caused the Big 4 firms to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage by peddling bogus shelters around the turn of the millennium.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 19 June 2021
Jamila’s bisque, a heady pottage of crawfish, spinach and zucchini, is a dish the restaurant normally serves at Jazz Fest, which of course also was canceled this year.
—Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
Surely even medieval peasants sometimes stared into the middle distance and sighed over their barley pottage, longing for the next village fête day and a bit of carnivalesque mayhem.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
Dinner will include traditional favorites as chine of roast pork, pottage of cabbage, leeks and onions, and Indian pudding.
—courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
Indeed, for millennia, in the West as well as the East, bowls were the vessel from which ordinary people ate all their meals, because most cooking consisted of some kind of soup or stew or pottage, ladled from a common pot.
—Bee Wilson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
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Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Some staple Nigerian dishes have gained popularity in the States, include Jollof rice, pounded yam and egusi, yam pottage (asaro) as well as rice and stew.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
In effect, for a mess of pottage, a public school sold an inflated but permanent artistic legacy to a private citizen.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
That is what caused the Big 4 firms to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage by peddling bogus shelters around the turn of the millennium.
—Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 19 June 2021
Jamila’s bisque, a heady pottage of crawfish, spinach and zucchini, is a dish the restaurant normally serves at Jazz Fest, which of course also was canceled this year.
—Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
Surely even medieval peasants sometimes stared into the middle distance and sighed over their barley pottage, longing for the next village fête day and a bit of carnivalesque mayhem.
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
Dinner will include traditional favorites as chine of roast pork, pottage of cabbage, leeks and onions, and Indian pudding.
—courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
Indeed, for millennia, in the West as well as the East, bowls were the vessel from which ordinary people ate all their meals, because most cooking consisted of some kind of soup or stew or pottage, ladled from a common pot.
—Bee Wilson, WSJ, 13 July 2018
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“Pottage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pottage. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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pottage
noun
pot·tage
ˈpät-ij 
: a thick soup of vegetables or vegetables and meat
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