butter
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"Your shea butter that a lot of people use - either raw or in cosmetic products around the world - is because of bats, which disperse the seeds of the tree," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
A place for the pork juices to settle, for the butter from the raisins to seep into, for the yogurt to drag through in soft, tangy streaks.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026
In the core public-markets arm, BlackRock’s iShares exchange-traded funds remain its bread and butter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Recently it has joined the AI rush, deviating from its bread and butter of conventional infrastructure and blue-chip stocks, pumping money into several large AI data center funds, including one with asset manager Brookfield.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
I was eating sticks of butter as I went across the interior to maintain energy.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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