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Recent Examples of julienne
Rodriguez said Swift and Kelce ordered the pan-seared, blackened Mahi-Mahi ($45), served with lobster risotto, julienned vegetables and red pepper sauce.
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Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
Gerard Butler falls through the ceiling of the Lincoln Bedroom to avoid being julienned by helicopter blades in Olympus Has Fallen.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Unlike with mincing or dicing, julienning is often more of a stylistic choice.
—G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
Indeed, some quarters tried to cancel her, mostly for spilling trade secrets about how journalists, especially the bestselling writer Joe McGinniss , got their subjects to trust them, only to julienne them in print.
—Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
Here’s an easy pot sticker recipe that can be made with pigeon or any number of other game meats.
8 pigeons, breasted
¼ cup ginger, minced
2 eggs, beaten
1 head Napa cabbage, sliced
2 bunches of scallions, thinly sliced
2 carrots, julienned2 Tbsp.
—Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 30 Apr. 2020
In Seafood Chow Nian Gao, the rice cakes are slightly chewy, but perfectly capture flavor from the sauce, squid, shrimp, clams, carrots, green onion, and julienned ginger.
—Eric Velasco, al, 21 Jan. 2020
From the snack section, try the miang ($14 for four): a tiny, colorful universe of seasonal fruit brunoise, shaved coconut, cured trout roe, julienned makrut lime leaf and fish sauce caramel arranged on betel leaves.
—Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2019
Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
Gerard Butler falls through the ceiling of the Lincoln Bedroom to avoid being julienned by helicopter blades in Olympus Has Fallen.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Unlike with mincing or dicing, julienning is often more of a stylistic choice.
—G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
Indeed, some quarters tried to cancel her, mostly for spilling trade secrets about how journalists, especially the bestselling writer Joe McGinniss , got their subjects to trust them, only to julienne them in print.
—Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
Here’s an easy pot sticker recipe that can be made with pigeon or any number of other game meats.
8 pigeons, breasted
¼ cup ginger, minced
2 eggs, beaten
1 head Napa cabbage, sliced
2 bunches of scallions, thinly sliced
2 carrots, julienned2 Tbsp.
—Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 30 Apr. 2020
In Seafood Chow Nian Gao, the rice cakes are slightly chewy, but perfectly capture flavor from the sauce, squid, shrimp, clams, carrots, green onion, and julienned ginger.
—Eric Velasco, al, 21 Jan. 2020
From the snack section, try the miang ($14 for four): a tiny, colorful universe of seasonal fruit brunoise, shaved coconut, cured trout roe, julienned makrut lime leaf and fish sauce caramel arranged on betel leaves.
—Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 14 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for julienne
Verb
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It can be enjoyed as a salad (be sure to massage the leaves first) or chopped and cooked in stews, soups, curries, and more.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Martha Stewart,
9 Feb. 2026
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Fresh marigold leaves were rinsed, chopped, crushed, centrifuged, filtered, and evaporated.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Net profit margin is just one way of slicing and dicing all the data that accompanies earnings, of course, and some other measurements are a bit less rosy, Butters pointed out.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, add 1 large yellow onion, small diced, 3 celery stalks, small diced, 1 small fennel bulb, cored and small diced, and 5 garlic cloves, minced, to the pot with the chicken drippings.—
Hailee Catalano,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Crockett has rarely minced his words.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2026
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Arrange minced chicken on a microwave-safe plate, spreading out evenly.—
C.W. Cameron,
AJC.com,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Using single-cell RNA data from four additional mouse brains — including ones from male or female mice, and ones sliced from left to right or front to back — CellTransformer produced similar maps.—
Amber Dance,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Feb. 2026
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And then there's Reinhardt's sinister robot sidekick Maximilian, a silent, malevolent presence who has no qualms about slicing up humans with his Swiss Army Knife-esque collection of torture devices.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Even the front is starting to chip off a little.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Feb. 2026
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The gap swelled to 64-43 before UCI started to chip away.—
Oc Register,
Oc Register,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Julienne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/julienne. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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