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cinnamon

[sin-uh-muhn] / ˈsɪn ə mən /


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Danni explained to Hollywood and fellow judge Nigella Lawson that they were vegan so could not try their own cinnamon "Snickerdoodle" cookies, topped with peanut brittle.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

According to the fundraising website, Jeff Wilson was outside the couple’s home when he was suddenly attacked by a cinnamon bear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

On a Saturday, I will happily get up at 6 a.m. with coffee to babysit yeasted cinnamon rolls or start whisking hollandaise.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

One had him add more cinnamon, but the spice level still wasn’t right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

They walk in loops around the circus, sipping their cocoa and munching on chocolate mice and the sugary cinnamon pastry things, which are just as good as promised.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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 Helen Reimensnyder Martin

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

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




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