special sauce

noun

: secret sauce
… thinly sliced lamb served with tomato, onion and special sauce on warm pita bread …New Times
The special sauce is their software that enables the computers to tell whether a call has reached a live person or an answering device …Tiernan Ray

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While much of Bodies’ special sauce comes from its very hip, very now cast—including Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Sennott, Maria Bakalova, Chase Sui Wonders, Lee Pace, and the aforementioned Davidson—much of its zeitgeist-capturing mania comes from the mind of its director, Halina Reijn. Marah Eakin, WIRED, 5 Aug. 2022 Chick-fil-A is known for its signature fried or grilled chicken sandwiches with a pickle and special sauce, waffle fries, and a menu of salads, sides, and breakfast items. Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024 Recently the star and perennial heartthrob used that special sauce to help rescue S.W.A.T., the CBS police procedural he’s led since 2017, from extinction. Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024 Most robots would panic given instructions that vague, but the special sauce that Ashutosh Saxena's Robot Learning Lab has developed enables the PR2 to make logical inferences about missing steps or poor instructions. IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2014 See all Example Sentences for special sauce 

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of special sauce was in 1848

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“Special sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/special%20sauce. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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