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candy

[kan-dee] / ˈkæn di /


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Spanning everything from huge, multigenerational businesses like agriculture giant Cargill and candy maker Mars, to midmarket companies like Lodge and small businesses, these family-owned businesses are a force in the U.S. economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Its factories can supply everything from frozen meat and candy to lipstick, medicine capsules and sports hijabs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

In the living room, a blue resin coffee table shaped like a candy wrapper adds to the playful feel, along with vintage candy dishes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Sweeteners are found in countless everyday products, including soft drinks, candy, desserts, breakfast cereals, snacks, and some medications.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

I stopped by a general store and picked up two sassafras candy sticks for a penny to help me concentrate on Jemma’s second clue.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

"I don't know how long we will be like this," said Stefani Garate, 26, who used to sell coconut candies on the beach.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Claire Salinda: Your composition captures flowers, chamoy and other candies and fruit sumptuously arranged in and around a ceramic jar from LACMA’s permanent collection.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2026

Initially it was a hat and shoe repair store, with candies sold from a cart out front as an extra earning stream.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

But Ess’s eyes widened as Jinny came to her with the candies.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

And yes, sometimes that means recommending specialty ingredients genuinely worthy of a relative splurge: the good vanilla, candied citrus, Kewpie over the bottom-shelf mayonnaise.

From Salon May 12, 2026

Cake fillings of almond crunch and toasted pecan praline and candied lemon, while jackfruit and palm sugar bring distinct South-East Asian flavours.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

There’s the Ukrainian poppy seed cake makivnyk, the Middle Eastern hot chocolate sahlep, the Spanish nougat turrón and the Chinese candied fruit tanghulu, among others.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2025

It’s garnished with berries and candied rosemary and ginger.

From Salon Dec. 15, 2025

He fed the sparrow some more of the candied nut.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Some confectioners infuse their candying syrup with botanicals, like bay leaves, rosemary or peppercorns, for added intrigue.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2023

It’s subtle but transformative to know what sugar feels like in your fingers at different stages of candying.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2017

By this property, the combs serve also to keep the bees warm, and there is not so much risk of the honey candying in the cells, or the combs cracking with frost.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth

Besides possessing the desirable qualities already described, they answer as nurseries for the rearing of the young, and as small air-tight vessels in which the honey is preserved from souring or candying.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth

Opening his coppers, and finding an old boot boiling away as saucy as could be, and sometimes cakes of pitch candying in his oven.

From Omoo by Herman Melville




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