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Recent Examples of ham
Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
To help these families and individuals, the rescue mission, a nonprofit Christian organization, distributed more than 1,000 turkeys, hams and chickens for their Thanksgiving feast.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 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
Create soup or breakfast hash with ham or prime rib.
—Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
To help these families and individuals, the rescue mission, a nonprofit Christian organization, distributed more than 1,000 turkeys, hams and chickens for their Thanksgiving feast.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 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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Cohen’s interpretation of Regina George may have been a lot hammier than Rachel McAdams, but Chabert and Lohan had basically the exact same inflection in their voices as in the original.Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 21 Nov. 2024
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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 gunman then shot the driver in the left hand and thigh.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The lift is complete when the athlete stands upright with their shoulders back and the barbell at thigh level.Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Dec. 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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The seafood-forward seasonal menu highlights regional produce and contemporary Australian cuisine with dishes like Tasmanian scallops, King Island Sirloin and Tasmanian lamb shank.Kaila Yu, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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There’s one bad shank, a 20-yarder off the side of his foot.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
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He was shot from behind just before 7 a.m. on Dec. 4 outside of the New York Hilton Midtown—where the meeting was being held—and was hit in the back and right calf, after which the suspect fled the area on foot and on an electric bike.Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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One of the 14-year-olds suffered a gunshot wound to his calf and was said to be in stable condition, CBS Philadelphia reported.Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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Mark Withers, the prolific TV actor with notable roles in series like Dynasty and Kaz, has died.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Zak Williams, the comedian's oldest son, opened up to People at the 12th Annual Bring Change to Mind Revels & Revelations Gala, an organization which the actor's 41-year-old son sits on the board of.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Ham.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ham. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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