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cinnamon

[sin-uh-muhn] / ˈsɪn ə mən /


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For those concerned about sugar intake, Lev Sercarz has also touted the benefits of cinnamon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Simply fry your sliced bananas in a large pan with a cooked mixture of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

But in 1981 Life Savers was sold to Nabisco, and Choc-O-Mint was “retired,” along with cinnamon, violet and older versions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

I set it on the chair next to me and sipped tea with honey and cinnamon while Mama loosed my hair, then oiled and combed and brushed it as gently as she could.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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

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 White, Stewart Edward

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 Stearns, Charles A.

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

My pop he sayed I ain't got need to waste my time gettin' learnt them cinnamons.

From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Martin, Helen Reimensnyder




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