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Instead of sausage, try savory and juicy rotisserie chicken in your baked ziti.—Brennan Long, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026 Pizza still takes center stage, but the restaurant also offers wings (10 bone-in or boneless) and tenders (four to an order), baked ziti, penne alla vodka, fettuccine alfredo, and spaghetti and meatballs.—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 27 Feb. 2026 At the Port Authority Bus Terminal expansion, half a mile uptown, Staller trained his lens on giant tubes of steel rimmed with teeth—core drill sections, frosted with snow, like colossal ziti topped with mozzarella cheese—which a crane was hoisting into place.—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 Cavatappi, rotini, ziti, or radiatori would work well instead.—Martha Stewart, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ziti
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Etymology
Italian, plural of zito, alteration of zita piece of tubular pasta, probably short for maccheroni di zita, literally, bride's macaroni