lime
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Then came paper towels, Method cleaner, dish soap, lime sparkling water and grapefruit-scented antibacterial wipes.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The lime mountaineering boots worn by an Indian climber who died in 1996 have been a grim trail marker for many climbers on their way up the world's highest peak ever since.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Items like honey chicken and cilantro lime sauce proved to be popular.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
It also has a smaller and highly profitable specialty-materials business that makes products including dolomitic lime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
But this is key lime pie we’re talking about, so I do.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
I was addicted to reading the food scenes—the Christmas feast that the March girls bring to the Hummels, the illicit pickled limes Amy sucks on at school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
She shows me ripening limes and lemons inside her allotment greenhouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
He went from standard citrus, apricot and avocado to a more exotic collection, adding finger limes, valentine pummelos, jaboticaba, cherimoya and pawpaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
He closed the door, sat down beside Rab, and began slicing lemons, oranges, and limes.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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The previous owners — an army general and his wife, a journalist — paneled the main room in rustic limed wood with scalloped trim.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Indeed, of the 180 or so tombs that his team examined at the cemetery, this was the only one that had been limed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
Lightness and informality were crucial to achieving the desired open-arms effect, so the living room’s dusky paneling was stripped and limed to give it an earthier blanched appearance.
From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 8, 2015
Against one wall was a pile of limed and salted hides, still covered in hair.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012
The skins are washed until the dirt and salt are out; they are worked in paddle-wheels, if necessary, until soft; they are limed; unhaired; and bated, or puered.
From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett
But as CO2 continues to rise and geoengineering a climate solution grows more tempting, ocean liming has a key advantage over other geoengineering proposals, such as schemes to release sunlight-reflecting particles in the atmosphere.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2022
The carbonates and oxides in the ash are valuable liming agents that can raise pH and help neutralize acidic soils.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
They survived foul trouble; Melo Trimble fouled out with 1:03 remaining, and Robert Carter Jr. and Diamond Stone each finished with four fouls, liming them to 22 minutes apiece.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2016
But, he added, “As long as we are talking about liming starts now and not in the regular season I’m fine with it.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015
Lime should not be slaked too long before using, as it absorbs carbonic acid from the atmosphere, whereby carbonate of lime is formed, and this is useless for liming cloth.
From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech
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