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[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


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Closures are not new in the county’s berry fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

In it, she wears her blond hair down, its curls frizzing attractively, and appears to be wearing minimal makeup—stained berry lips, pink cheeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Those include rival Rogue’s mango-flavored pouches and Velo’s wild berry and dragon fruit flavors.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

The standout drink on my visit was the triple berry matcha, made with first-harvest organic matcha, house-made berry syrup and vanilla cream.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

It glowed as brightly as a holly berry in the dimness, and several of them had brushed through it, longing for the contact with something so vibrantly alive.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The company supplies strawberries for Driscoll’s, which markets berries grown by independent farmers under contract.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Sales prices for Yunnan berries, he said, fell from $45 a kilogram in 2021 to $15 dollars this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Most traditional foodstuffs, such as nuts or zereshk -- small red berries used in Persian cuisine -- remain available, however.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

He's already been out in his kayak to catch fish, he's been foraging for mushrooms and berries, and he's enjoyed vegetables from his neighbour's croft.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

My wife says it’s because they hate the taste of the berries and pass them on hoping to get a sweeter one, and of course there aren’t any—they’re all sour.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The floral arrangements used “English foliage — holly, berried ivy and red skimmia,” and the tree was to be recycled to be viewed by holiday visitors to Windsor.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2022

In fall, masses of winter pansies, ornamental kale and berried shrubs replace tender plantings in the massive window box and containers, while the trim boxwood hedges and clipped hollies carry the show throughout winter.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

An' dat's whah my daughter-in-law's folks is berried.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various

Under this arrangement 2,365 "berried" lobsters were bought from the Maine fishermen by the U. S. Fish Commission.

From The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 by John N. (John Nathan) Cobb

If the "berried" or female lobster bearing eggs, and the young and immature, were let alone by the fishermen there would be no necessity for a resort to artificial lobster culture.

From The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 by John N. (John Nathan) Cobb

They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, I’m not going to follow her, although it would be easier than playing On the Track, the game we made up when went berrying or food gathering.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Joe and Marly did so much berrying, what with strawberries and then red raspberries and then blackberries, that Joe said he was absolutely berried-out.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

I’m beginning to think she’s gone fishing or berrying and will not return until dusk.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Returned to find all my tent mates gone berrying.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jenkins Lloyd Jones


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