mushroom
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He said mushroom spotting can transform an ordinary walk into an adventure, revealing colourful and unusual species that many people pass by without noticing.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
But they are also excellent spooned onto little buns, topped with cheese and baked into mushroom sliders.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The problem, says Lharong Drolma, a second-generation mushroom picker who is unrelated to Sonam Drolma, is that “fewer people are buying them, probably because the economy was already bad.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
He nitpicks about the quality of this mushroom or that mushroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Jiichan had mentioned a special, expensive mushroom called a “matsutake.”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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Outside of tourism and picking matsutake mushrooms, there are few other sources of wealth in this rugged, historically impoverished corner of China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
While the colourful displays may encourage people to learn more about fungi, experts are warning against assuming wild mushrooms are safe to eat.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
"The best place to get your mushrooms if you want to eat them is the supermarket."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
She made a feast of steamed mussels with coconut cream sauce, rib-eye, chicken, rice and sautéed mushrooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Sometimes their bodies grow over with lichen or bloom with mushrooms.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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What began in 1995 as Parton's modest giveaway of 6,000 books to needy children has mushroomed into an operation involving hundreds of local groups and multiple publishers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
To understand how the people mover mushroomed in price, let’s start at the beginning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
That all changed as the Premier League's global appeal mushroomed.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Since last fall, when Kakaiya began selling the model, clinician interest has mushroomed.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026
There were camphor trees and teaks and African cedars and red stinkwood trees, and here and there a dark green cloud of leaves mushroomed above the forest canopy.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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Data centers are mushrooming, so numerous and monolithic they seem abstract, until one starts materializing on the Conodoguinet Creek in Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It is visible in the mushrooming of private schools in small towns and villages.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
That is at least least partly due to Proposition 103, which was passed in 1988 in an era of mushrooming auto premiums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, new LNG terminals were mushrooming on the Gulf Coast, and Qatar was on track to expand its export capacity more than 40% starting around midyear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
“Sometimes I dream lightning strikes. Or earthquakes. Sometimes it’s dark clouds mushrooming in the sky. I wake troubled.”
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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