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Recent Examples of ham
Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Both turkey and ham can affect your cholesterol.
—Laura Schober, Health, 5 Jan. 2026
Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2024
The five-person group appears to be posing for the camera, hamming up their respective jobs.
—Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2023
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Noun
With 20 hours back in her life, Krohne went ham on posting content, linking to her affiliate links, posting on her LTK and ShopMine and sourcing brand deals.
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This act also shows Lil Nas X’s rise including Madonna hamming for the cameras backstage at one of his shows.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for ham
Adjective
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The result is moving, but just a little hammy.—
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Yes, the natural charisma is there, but gone are the hammy flourishes and over-the-top gags.—
Noun
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Unlike skinny jeans, this style is fitted through the thigh and keeps a consistent width through the ankle, resulting in a tailoredlook.—
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Your inner thigh should touch the floor.—
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Friendly goats treat downward dog posers as their own obstacle courses, scrambling atop yogis who may just find that supporting the weight of their agile farm friends is a surprisingly vigorous — and hilarious — core workout.—
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Rideshare posers have also allegedly raped passengers.—
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Upton served as a radioman throughout the war, Farley said.—
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Upton continued to serve as a radioman during World War II and later started a family with wife Gene, who Pacific Historic Parks said died in 2018.—
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In October, the Department of Homeland Security posted an image aping marketing for the Halo series.—
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More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.—
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The fork-tender caveman-size shank is blanketed in sautéed endive and a bright lemon-egg-dill sauce.—
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Those looking to push place and weight across technical terrain should invest in a good pair of hiking boots with a stiff, supportive shank.—
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However, Chuba Hubbard’s calf injury in the second quarter of the season opened things up for Dowdle to emerge.—
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Lakers starters Austin Reaves and Rui Hachimura remain sidelined by injury, but Hachimura (calf) might return early next week from his six-game absence, coach JJ Redick said.—
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The actor gave him the tickets after a video of Mamoud diving into a snowbank went viral.—
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Given the actors' previous antics on the podcast, however, there's a big question mark over how sincere Glassman's new comments are.—
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“Ham.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ham. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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