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delicacies

noun

plural of delicacy

as in treats

something that is pleasing to eat because it is rare or a luxury presented with a plate of national delicacies while they waited for the queen

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Recent Examples of delicacies Salah features in a rather sweet video in which he is welcomed into the home of a grandma named Khadija Akbash, fed local delicacies, and welcomed into the family. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Expect elevated takes on coastal delicacies—shrimp cocktail, oysters Rockefeller, fresh scallops, and shrimp and grits. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2026 Classic banana delicacies like pudding, milkshakes and coffee drinks are available, as well as unique takes on cotton candy, cheesecake wontons and lemonade. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026 The Gran Piatto Core, an antipasto platter laden with delicacies like prosciutto crudo di Modena, creamy ricotta di bufala, and a variety of other specialty meats, leads the list of sharing plates. — Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Here, visitors can celebrate all forms of this beloved regional ingredient, including cooking demonstrations, sampling local delicacies, and purchasing white truffles directly from the trifulao, or truffle hunters, themselves. — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Aug. 2026 Fishermen, when not fired on or arrested by the Israeli navy, landed sardines, tuna, and other Mediterranean delicacies, and farmers continued an eight-thousand-year tradition of tending olive trees and raising sheep, goats, and chickens. — Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2026 Look for the shelves of Italian delicacies in front of the counter at Vero, the court’s pizza and pasta station. — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 21 July 2026 For the past 115 years, Gaido’s has been cooking up these coastal delicacies. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 July 2026

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treats

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Yeo recommends keeping treats below 10% of a cat’s daily calories or using part of the regular food allowance as rewards.

— Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Although El-Sayed has never said anything nearly as inflammatory as the sorts of comments Piker makes routinely, his mixture of anti-Zionism and populism treats pro-Israel activism as a nefarious and all-pervasive force.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026

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