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beet

[beet] / bit /
NOUN
vegetable
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We head to outdoor restaurants where no one is present and the eager wait staff want to feed her bacon and me, my beet salad.

From Salon May 9, 2026

Benali added that sugar beet, citrus and vegetable farms had also been devastated by flooding.

From Barron's Feb. 13, 2026

Food companies started replacing it with cane or beet sugar more than a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

Mr Hoyles, who is growing the olives alongside more conventional crops such as wheat, sugar beet, potatoes and peas said he had installed wind turbines and solar panels to improve energy self-sufficiency.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2025

His face was red as a beet, but he didn’t put in a word for me.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Mars researchers figured out how to deliver convincing replicas of its red, orange and yellow candies using natural ingredients like beets and turmeric.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

They’re vegetarians: They eat grass, alfalfa, cassava, sweet potato, carrots, beets, and, at the zoo, a commercial feed.

From Slate May 27, 2026

This year, the last factory that turned sugar beets into sugar in California shut down, leading to the elimination of hundreds of jobs in the Imperial Valley.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

Betaine is a small molecule found in foods like beets and spinach, but the body also makes it on its own.

From Science Daily Nov. 13, 2025

Miss Grybas wasn’t able to give us beets today.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys




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