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mushroom

[muhsh-room, -room] / ˈmʌʃ rum, -rʊm /


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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

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

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

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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