grain
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The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says “every cent per gallon matters” when you run a fleet of grain trucks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
A second vessel - carrying grain - was also hit within Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Romania reported on Monday that a grain ship had caught fire and sank in the Black Sea, with one crew member killed and one missing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Even when life offers her a grain of solace or happiness, the morsel is already rotting from the inside out.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
It never cools the room much, but when there's no electricity and it can't even move a tiny bit of air, I feel like a grain of rice boiling in my own sweat.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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Wheat grains shrivelled instead of fattening, and the yield plummeted.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The “slop bowl” became internet shorthand for the familiar fast-casual mash-up — grains, greens, globally inspired protein, sauce, perhaps an avocado surcharge — assembled with the logic of a cafeteria line and an over-$10 price.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
China's import list includes more than 1,600 categories of American goods, including meats -- beef, pork, poultry and seafood -- grains, dairy, whiskey, coal and timber.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
I tend to head straight to the stall run by Benjamin Watson of Kinship Bread, who uses only regional grains and stone-milled flours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
She hauled it back to the kitchen hut and poured the grains into a mortar made from a tree trunk.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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