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The hook, "you can use my lyrics as your captions", is a delectably scathing riposte to a musician who sniped her style.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg deliver the news—well-known to many Americans, if not to the frequenters of farmers markets—that the American food industry is wildly successful at keeping us safely and even delectably fed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But it’s a most delectably weird play, experimental in form and frenetically playful in language.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

These brownies are an ode to summer, offering the gooeyness you’ve come to love with a delectably irresistible fudgy brownie.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Apricot and pear orchards abound, and on a piece of grass in one of these I found my camp most delectably pitched.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)