Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mince.
  • adjective finely chopped
  • adjective minutely subdivided

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Examples

  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touched off a political firestorm in W.shington when she touched down here in Syria, drawing a strong rebuke from President George W. Bush, who lashed out at what he calls the minced signals a visit by such a high-ranking U.S. official sends to the Syrian leadership, a state sponsor of terror.

    CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2007 2007

  • Then I slice the meat carpaccio thin – minced meat is more usual in a larb, but I do it my teacher's way.

    Cooking up holiday memories Tim Hayward 2010

  • But as I beat it with a hand mixer and added powdered sugar, then folded in minced orange peel preserved in Controy, plus some canela molida and finally, some finely chopped Chocolate Mayordomo con Canela, it became very similar to a good cannoli filling.

    Crisp, sweet wafers, cannoli and zarzamoras 2009

  • But as I beat it with a hand mixer and added powdered sugar, then folded in minced orange peel preserved in Controy, plus some canela molida and finally, some finely chopped Chocolate Mayordomo con Canela, it became very similar to a good cannoli filling.

    Crisp, sweet wafers, cannoli and zarzamoras 2009

  • But as I beat it with a hand mixer and added powdered sugar, then folded in minced orange peel preserved in Controy, plus some canela molida and finally, some finely chopped Chocolate Mayordomo con Canela, it became very similar to a good cannoli filling.

    Crisp, sweet wafers, cannoli and zarzamoras 2009

  • I have never met a kid that young who even knew what the word minced meant.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • This type of offensive word replacement is known as a minced oath or pseudo-profanity or expletive-deletive.

    Planet-x.com.au » What The Frak? Is It Really Swearing? 2009

  • Maybe the 'minced' fish sticks were cheaper, so to pinch a few pennies, that's what the mom bought.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Molly Daniels 2009

  • Geographically we lie between the two nuclear superpowers; we are, in a sense, the ham in the sandwich -- and have no desire to be "minced".

    Canada in World Affairs 1959

  • Make minced pyes of any meat, as you may see in page 232, in the dishes of minced pyes you may use those forms for any kind of minced pies, either of flesh, fish, or fowl, which I have particularized in some places of my Book.

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

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