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grain

[greyn] / greɪn /




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Its red-white-and-blue website shows the Statue of Liberty and a person wearing a cowboy hat striding with a partner through amber waves of grain.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

So although it’s always worth taking them with a grain of salt, last night’s bigger loser was betting markets, whose predictive power in Wisconsin was effectively zero.

From Slate Aug. 12, 2026

I take my little rebellions where I can, and it’s always nice when the vehicle for those little rebellions is a fine grain leather made in Italy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“We did see a shift into more grain bases, into items like pitas, and other items that they felt more comfortable with given the broader industry issues,” CEO Brett Schulman told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

They traded their yarns and cloth and tapestries for grain and potatoes and carrots and onions.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Keep foods like dried and canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, olive oil, and a variety of whole grains on hand so you always have something to cook with.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

Pair the greens with your favorite grains, whether that’s brown rice, quinoa or farro, and oven-baked salmon.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

“I find people saying, ‘I need to make more vegetable options, more grains, more plant-based items’ and they’re often not that exciting at first,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

A dose as small as a few grains of salt can be lethal.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Wheat grains are small and numerous, so some of them inevitably fell on the way to the campsite and were lost.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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