flower
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In early 2015, flower crowns started appearing on Ed Miliband's head.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Dozens of Khan supporters gathered near the private hospital, while others flung handfuls of red flower petals at passing cars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Hollyer also shared photos of the couple and friends posing in front of a flower arch and at dinner, seemingly moments after the proposal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Before the war, Iryna Terekh’s small business made outdoor furniture and ornaments such as benches, flower pots and wash basins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Tamika said, her smile as big as the white flower tucked behind her ear.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Netflix recently pulled funding for the couple’s production company and Meghan’s As Ever brand, an online seller of jams, dried flowers and other home goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The results indicate that pollinator-friendly planting schemes may need to consider more than simply providing large numbers of flowers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Vigil organisers had asked people to wear black if possible, and to bring flowers.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Some threw flowers onto the hearse carrying her coffin, which was draped in the Welsh flag and accompanied by a framed photograph of the singer.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The trees and bushes on the island were exploding with flowers, and little birds flew past with blades of grass in their beaks for building their nests.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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A veil rested on their heads, held by a satin flowered headband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Glass vases with metallic finishes of unnatural blue, green and gold are drowned in palm leaf motifs, ready to be flowered.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
Each generation of banana plants had to grow for at least 12 months before researchers could test them for disease resistance and continue breeding once they flowered.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
The titan arum first flowered outside of Sumatra in 1889 in Kew.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
She wanted to look down at her son and tell him that it wasn’t his father, but she immediately recognized the spindly arms, in a bright flowered shirt that she had made, gripping the cables.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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To explore this nutritional mismatch, researchers compared the essential amino acid composition of honeybee tissues with pollen collected from 99 UK flowering plant species representing 26 plant families.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
They support an estimated 75% of global crop pollination, and nearly 90% of all flowering plants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
It also heralded a flowering of his career as a TV presenter and he seemed to be rarely off our screens.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
They grow in both a leaf stage, when they resemble small trees, and in a rare flowering stage that may have gaps of several years or even a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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