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cinnamon

[sin-uh-muhn] / ˈsɪn ə mən /


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Tasting the bakes, Lawson said the cookies had "too much cinnamon and bicarb", adding: "It's impossible to know what you are baking if you don't taste it."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Not banana bread— there was no cinnamon, cardamon, nuts or loaf pan involved.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

A cinnamon bear is a type of black bear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The closest I’ve been able to get to bringing its sparkle back has been no classic, half vanilla, half cinnamon dolce,” one chai lover posted, with roughly 100 messages in response.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The second was occupied by Gregory Pitts and his friends swatting their arms through a cloud of body spray that smelled like cinnamon if cinnamon smelled like garlic.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

It's an Ashkenazi recipe — with apples and cinnamons, bound by apricot jam and blackberry wine — that Ziggy and his kitchen staff will spend the next few days preparing by the truckload, literally.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2022

When the three men joined us and were talking about the bears, one of them shouted, "Here come two more," and before we could realize it we saw two good-sized cinnamons at the feast.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

So close were they that we could see the markings of every feather—the iridescence of the heads, the delicate, wave-marked cinnamons and grays and browns, even the absurd little curled plumes over the tails.

From The Killer by Stewart Edward White

A miniature Eden indeed, thought Colonel Glinka, of figs and cinnamons, of date palms and patchouli, all enclosed within a high wire fence.

From Pastoral Affair by Charles A. Stearns

Didn't know anything about bear when I went into the country, exceptin' when I was a youngster I'd seen a heap of cinnamons and that little black kind.

From Dutch Courage and Other Stories by Jack London




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