special sauce
noun
: secret sauce
… thinly sliced lamb served with tomato, onion and special sauce on warm pita bread …—
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New TimesThe 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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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
Local content can also be the special sauce for a platform, and that’s the point for Netflix’s Lat Am content chief.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
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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
Local content can also be the special sauce for a platform, and that’s the point for Netflix’s Lat Am content chief.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Special sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/special%20sauce. Accessed 16 Dec. 2024.
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