honey
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Research has found acetamiprid can poison honey bees, affecting their foraging capacity and memory, while a 2024 study suggested flupyradifurone could be lethal to some bees.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Forte Chocolates’ rosemary-orange caramels are another excellent small bite: honey caramel infused with rosemary, bright orange and a dash of salt, all enrobed in dark chocolate.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Although honey bees and paper wasps are well known for building large communal nests, most bee species actually live alone.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Soon, she began selling their raw honey at local farmers markets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The cakes were the very best part, full of custard and drizzled with caramel and honey.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Jams, jellies and honeys make perfect pairings for much of what’s on offer.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Vendors are hawking flower crowns, drinking horns, herbal tea blends and artisanal wildflower honeys while the pop-up taverns declaring “COLD DRYNKS” attend to parched wayfarers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
A new ramp vinegar, called Zeal, is from Brightland, a company based in Los Angeles that gets its products, mostly olive oils, vinegars and honeys, from small producers in California and elsewhere.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
From infused honeys to hits of spice, here are some sauces that can add a little chill to your day-to-day dining.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2021
"Laws a massy, what am yo' doin' thar, honeys?"
From A Little Florida Lady by Paine, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Charlotte)
On a recent evening, from a seat at the restaurant’s fluted blonde-wood bar, I watched as a blaze of honeyed light poured through a wall of windows overlooking sloping vineyards and the Appalachian foothills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
But on the eve of her 22nd birthday, Selines — who speaks in the same honeyed, dulcet tones she sings in — admits that she cringes at the sound of her own teen yearning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
She explained that she and her siblings would deliberately choose long bedtime stories to spend more time listening to their father read aloud, describing his voice as "honeyed".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Roasted fruit welcomes herbs: rosemary with grapes, thyme with honeyed peaches, basil with strawberries.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
“It was your manner of giving back the gifts that caused Hamlet’s temper to flare. Had you spoken more honeyed words, it would have awakened his ardor, not his anger,” he scolded.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Russian Journey is his most interesting book to date and offers a penetrating glimpse of the enigmatic bear which is currently bent on retracting its claws and honeying up the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ay, but the young colt winced and whinnied and flung up her heels; and then the King came honeying about her, and this Becket, her father's friend, like enough staved us from her.
From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
But honeying at the whisper of a lord: And one the Master, as a rogue in grain, Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.'
From Aspects of Modern Oxford by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)
I’d always felt that way, too, till he come honeying round me this spring.
From Captain Pott's Minister by Cooper, Francis L. (Francis Le Roy)
So she set briskly about her task, honeying Eugene the while, for she was confident that this above all things was the thing he needed.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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This honied bread or cake it appears, was frequently resorted to, as in the present day, to quiet troublesome children as well as to please the taste of fastidious patients.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Fly forth, dear Bees, 'tis morn, fly forth To South, to North, to West, to East; And cull from every fragrant flower A honied feast.
From Buzz a Buzz or The Bees by Busch, Wilhelm
No fair arms around him cling, Ne'er he tastes a honied kiss; Songs that ancient dreamers sing, Those alone afford him bliss.
From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various