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mushroom

[muhsh-room, -room] / ˈmʌʃ rum, -rʊm /


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Think mushroom leather, spider-silk filaments, membranes of algae.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

With the decline of logging and cannabis as livelihoods, they see income from tourists attracted by ultramarathons, mushroom foraging and other outdoor activities as a financial savior.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

One slightly stranger favorite is ground beef mixed with minced mushrooms and a little mushroom gravy powder, which can become an excellent head start on stew, meatballs, meatloaf or cottage pie.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

Lawyers for Australian mushroom murderer Erin Patterson say her conviction was undermined by a "catastrophic" mix-up that led to the jury staying at the same hotel as prosecutors and a key witness.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Because that night, while Clare was balancing atop his tallest chair, snipping down a mushroom to chop and pack into a glass bottle, a pair of glowing eyes appeared in his window.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

There was no single revelation, just a lot of weeknight pans of mushrooms that gradually got better as I figured out what I liked.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

And on that note: buy whatever mushrooms look good and are on sale.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

And once my fall appetite returns — the appetite for the beige and the brown — I make mushrooms.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

At the drop of 3 p.m., the sellers stream into the auction hall, thrusting their best-looking mushrooms at the buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

The robot’s computer brain went to work and found that certain kinds of mushrooms were capable of healing the land by absorbing toxic substances.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Cofnas’s case soon mushroomed into a test of free speech at Cambridge, with academics publicly urging Cambridge to either terminate Cofnas or keep him on at all costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

To understand how the people mover mushroomed in price, let’s start at the beginning.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

That all changed as the Premier League's global appeal mushroomed.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Since last fall, when Kakaiya began selling the model, clinician interest has mushroomed.

From Slate Jun. 7, 2026

During the following weeks, the Mother Paula’s story mushroomed into a full-blown scandal.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Meanwhile, new LNG terminals were mushrooming on the Gulf Coast, and Qatar was on track to expand its export capacity more than 40% starting around midyear.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 7, 2026

In nursing homes mushrooming across the Mexican border, elderly Americans are turning up for low-cost care.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

The technology stands accused of fuelling misinformation, copyright lawsuits are mushrooming, and many companies have cited AI adoption as an explanation for mass layoffs.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

USC’s deficit grew dramatically during the final year of Folt’s tenure, mushrooming from $158 million to upwards of $200 million — an increase of more than 26%.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2025

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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