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Brighten up your usual baked ziti recipe with fresh summer veggies for an al fresco dinner with friends.—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026 Or, choose from prepared dishes like lasagna, meatballs in sugo, baked ziti or a variety of vegetable side dishes.—Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 10 Apr. 2026 Pizza still takes center stage, but the restaurant also offers wings (10 bone-in or boneless) and tenders (four to an order), baked ziti, penne alla vodka, fettuccine alfredo, and spaghetti and meatballs.—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 27 Feb. 2026 At the Port Authority Bus Terminal expansion, half a mile uptown, Staller trained his lens on giant tubes of steel rimmed with teeth—core drill sections, frosted with snow, like colossal ziti topped with mozzarella cheese—which a crane was hoisting into place.—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ziti
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Etymology
Italian, plural of zito, alteration of zita piece of tubular pasta, probably short for maccheroni di zita, literally, bride's macaroni