violet
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Take a deep breath in Hollywood’s Kimpton Everly Hotel and you may catch a whiff of sandalwood, leather, fennel, cardamom, violet and cedar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The paper is titled "Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Suddenly, the world is plunged into an eerie, violet darkness.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Too much bracken inhibits the growth of the dog violet, the food source for the caterpillars.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Isobel picks up a potted violet that has toppled in the wake of the falling books and places it back upon its shelf.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Fresh and elegant, with serious tannins, aromas of violets and roses and flavors including pomegranate and big, ripe red berries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The pearl-bordered fritillary, a striking orange-and-black butterfly whose caterpillars feed only on violets, has declined by 70%.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
“Mike took it and made it incredibly subtle: flesh with the violets and the purples and the pearlescence,” Del Toro says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
The statue and a memorial were defaced this month at Croome, a 700-acre property that is home to a mansion and two castles as well as violets, tulips and bluebells.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
The African violets alone took three trips, and the briskets took two.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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