Thesaurus results for PEELER

peeler

noun

Definition of peeler

British

as in copper

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Recent Examples of peeler The skin can be removed using a paring knife or vegetable peeler, and the flesh can be sliced into rounds or half-moons, chopped finely or coarsely, or even cut into fun shapes with cookie cutters. — Riley Wofford, Martha Stewart, 26 May 2026 For an easy way to create Parmesan slices instead of grated cheese, simply use a potato peeler to shave thin strips directly from the wedge. — Linda Gassenheimer, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026 Using a vegetable peeler, shave Parmesan generously over everything. — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026 Because citrus zest and peel are best when fresh, make sure the fruit is clean and shiny before pulling out your Microplane or vegetable peeler, even if the fruit is organic. — Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for peeler

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Noun

Plus those cool copper/bronze accents all Wilderness models have.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
The detention of Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu on Thursday risks clouding Lusaka’s credentials as a relatively stable southern African democracy and denting investor confidence in Africa’s second-largest copper producer.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of copper

Noun

Jenna Ziviani, a constable at the police station, helped deliver Lyla while receiving guidance from an ambulance officer on the phone.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026
Thompson alerted a town administrator and special constable named Sherise Fountain, who went to investigate.

— Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of constable

Noun

The department said officers found a male victim and started life-saving measures until Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue arrived.

— Matthew Ablon, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
The guillotine was in the bed of a pickup truck spotted near the Capitol and the Supreme Court, where, officers said, it was illegally parked.

— Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of officer

Noun

Bernadette explains the racial nuances the Guardians might not know as newcomers to Earth, echoing the landmark 1971 Green Lantern/Green Arrow comic series, which attempts to bring the space cops down to Earth by exposing them to racial strife.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
In the years since Shakur's murder, what exactly happened in that hail of bullets -- and who pulled the trigger -- was obscured by a lack of physical evidence, feuding cops and the gangland code of silence.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of cop

Noun

Thaksin Shinawatra, the larger-than-life former policeman and telecom billionaire, built up enormous power as prime minister in the early 2000s, incurring the disdain of royalists.

— Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026
You’ll be attacked in the street for that, the policeman appeared to be telling him.

— Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of policeman

Noun

Another 170 gendarmes, or law enforcement officers, have also been dispatched to the region to support the firefighting effort.

— Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Set in the lush forests and fields of northeastern France, this excitingly offbeat first feature from Sarah Arnold depicts a gory factional war between hunters and farmers, haves and have-nots, with one depressed fish-out-of-water gendarme caught in the middle.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026

Definition of gendarme

Noun

After receiving a complaint, police officers and a state regulator found more than 50 decomposing bodies at South Chicago Chapel in the city’s South Deering neighborhood.

— Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
One of those locations, Kennedy Park, is where, in 2006, a group of day laborers were lured into a van by a local police officer posing as a construction worker.

— Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of police officer

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