fruit
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A jar of fruit syrup in the refrigerator is one of those small things that can make summer feel remarkably well-appointed.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
I prefer mine on the less-sweet side, but both the honey and pepper are easy to adjust depending on your fruit and your taste.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Albanese for his part qualified his comments, saying that the fruit "ended up being quite good".
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Retailers usually reject fruit and vegetables that don't meet strict guidelines on size, shape and colour.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
There were some rounds of cheese— Uncle Manfred always made his own—and we found some fruit in jars, and pickles too, and some honey.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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"Don't you dare think the Australian fruits and ours are the same. Ignorance is pathetic," said one social media comment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
You should enjoy the fruits of your labor, but it will take some planning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Others increased their intake of whole fruits and vegetables while also drinking one glass of fruit juice or a smoothie each day.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Who wouldn’t be astounded by such fruits of the imagination?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“You know, vegetables, fruits, and grains. I’ve heard humans are really bad for your cholesterol.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The explanation for their propinquity lies not in the creation of some whiz-bang, life-changing, paradigm-bending consumer product, or the shining virtues or particularly fertile minds that grace Silicon Valley’s fruited plain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025
Observing that peaches in the Carolinas germinated easily and fruited heavily, English explorer and naturalist John Lawson wrote in 1700 that "they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees."
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
Home to Lincoln Beer Company, patrons can sip on the brewery’s “perfectly pineapple” fruited wheat pints within sight of the building’s towers, reaching nobly into the Southern California skies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
"Purple fruited makes more sense. How about grapes or plums?"
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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A fully realized edible garden, complete with raised beds and fruiting trees, enhances the property’s sense of abundance and connection to nature.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Taczanowskia waska closely resembles the fruiting body of fungi in the genus Gibellula, which grow on spiders.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Seasons no longer follow a pattern. Flowering, fruiting, and harvesting all shift every year because of climate change," says Singh, now 62.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
To enable robots to navigate fields and harvest efficiently, many farms would need to plant fruiting walls—apple trees that have been trained to grow in dense canopies against flat vertical surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
I couldn't make it now without money, however, as there is very little fruiting agriculture down here at this time.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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