earthy
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Other dishes have relied on the earthy sweetness of sunchokes and cassava.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
These days, wellness products that used to be branded in spiritual and soft, earthy, non-Western ways during the Goop era are now promoted by men in tight black T-shirts talking about optimization and hard science.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
So a new earthy yellow hue was mixed and dubbed “Lauenstein Yellow.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The choral writing, in Sardinian dialect, reflects the traditional canto a tenore, giving it an earthy, ritualistic flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Yes, it was a little bit earthy, but that was all.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Fans of her earthier material won't be disappointed, though.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kombuchas made from black tea and pu-erh, meanwhile, displayed richer, earthier aromas with more pronounced fermentation characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
But for those of us with slightly earthier tastes, she remains the indelible Barbara Kean of the bygone, Batman-adjacent “Gotham.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Black beans bring a deeper, earthier tone; pintos are soft and nutty, more traditional.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
“The fire’s lit, but the cauldron’s empty,” as Ivor Dillonsby put it to me, or, in Enid Smeek’s slightly earthier phrase, “She’s nutty as squirrel poo.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Where it runs into some turbulence — and despite the best efforts of everyone involved in director Eric Schaeffer’s accomplished production, it eventually does — is in its earthiest realm.
From Washington Post
Throughout, imbuing the earthiest, coarsest things with the highest spiritual ardor, run the passionate preachings of the "Apostles."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He knew full well that that peaceful interim would be used by Jake to raise earthworks of the earthiest kind, and to train his guns with deadly accuracy upon his enemy.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
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