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beet

[beet] / bit /
NOUN
vegetable
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A consultation will be held over the proposals, which would concentrate British Sugar's beet processing operations at Wissington in west Norfolk, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk and Newark in Nottinghamshire.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

We head to outdoor restaurants where no one is present and the eager wait staff want to feed her bacon and me, my beet salad.

From Salon May 9, 2026

Next month, she said, organizers plan to honor the Japanese-Mexican Labor Assn., a union formed by sugar beet workers in 1903 that conducted a 48-day farmworker strike 123 years ago, long before Chavez.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

In the U.S., at one time the world’s leader in the making of maple syrup, production plummeted in the 20th century as the country’s population became more urban, and cane and beet sugar less expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

And that is precisely where Marc’s family story begins—with Nina’s grandfather, the serf who bought his freedom from figuring out how to color beet sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

We experienced this firsthand at the Lighthouse Hotel, where the standard breakfast was a plate of shredded boiled beets piled high, which we dubbed “beet mountain.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

They’re vegetarians: They eat grass, alfalfa, cassava, sweet potato, carrots, beets, and, at the zoo, a commercial feed.

From Slate May 27, 2026

He owns a large farming operation that grows sugar beets, alfalfa and melons and is one of the largest operators in the area.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2025

Betaine is a small molecule found in foods like beets and spinach, but the body also makes it on its own.

From Science Daily Nov. 13, 2025

She also wants me to tell you that the beets just haven't grown right since you left.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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