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[ap-uhl] / ˈæp əl /








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The event in Cheshire will not take place this October following a significantly reduced harvest from the estate's collection of about 300 apple and pear trees.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

And I was like, no, nobody can picture an apple in their head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Next year, as a single filer, the surviving spouse will face higher tax on the same income, making this potentially their last bite of the low-tax apple.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

As the German political theorist Werner Sombart wrote in 1906, in America “all socialist utopias came to nothing on roast beef and apple pie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Holding the apple in his paw about like I would if I were eating one, he opened his huge mouth, took one bite, and tossed what was left to the little monkeys.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“Unless you’re going to throw everything out and start over again, you’re going to have a very incoherent thing. Unless you have a clear strategy, you’re going to have some apples and oranges.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Myers then instructed them on climbing apple trees safely, and sent them out to pick apples for cider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Quips fell out of her like apples from a tree, ripening and landing at just the right time in any conversation.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Neil MacDonald, who manages more than 1,000 acres of Somerset orchards, says he has watched half his apples fall before they have ripened, because the trees are stressed by the drought.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Jimbo couldn’t have been any more pleased than he would have been if he had just found a bushel of apples.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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