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mushroom

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


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Meanwhile, the judge wrongly blocked other evidence that would have demonstrated the mother-of-two's long-time hobby of mushroom foraging, they said.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Like City Spa, the menu also offers Eastern European crowd-pleasers made in-house from borscht to cream of mushroom soup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

This is where the mysterious mushroom could become especially valuable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Community members described a wild edible mushroom called "Sedesdem" that could sometimes cause people to see miniature human figures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

She knelt, surveying a patch of mushroom pulp.

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

To investigate, Domnauer traveled to Yunnan and the Philippines, interviewed local residents, and collected specimens of L. asiatica along with other mushrooms belonging to the Lanmaoa genus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The mystery resurfaced during the 1990s, when people in Yunnan, Southwest China, reported similar hallucinations after eating bolete mushrooms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The results revealed that the mushrooms called Jian shou qing in China and Sedesdem in the Philippines were both L. asiatica.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Papatsanis used ultrviolet light to illuminate mushrooms known as "beautiful bonnets" growing from a decaying log on the lower slopes of Mount Olympus in Greece.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Her watercolors of speckled mushrooms and bonneted girls were hung with pride in the family room, and her skill was encouraged with private lessons and summer visits to sketching camp.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

What began in 1995 as Parton's modest giveaway of 6,000 books to needy children has mushroomed into an operation involving hundreds of local groups and multiple publishers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Anxiety about the Iran war, inflation and mushrooming public debt have driven the recent selloff in Treasury bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

That is at least least partly due to Proposition 103, which was passed in 1988 in an era of mushrooming auto premiums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

More and more EU countries are being thrown in the public spending sin bin over their mushrooming deficits, with Bulgaria expected to be added Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

Margie had three big brothers instead of one, and one day in October the whole bunch of them went out mushrooming.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen


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