mushroom
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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
Although the precise species remained uncertain, researchers suspected a recently described mushroom called Lanmaoa asiatica.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
During the 1950s and 1960s, anthropologists and mushroom specialists traveled to Papua New Guinea to investigate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 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
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Researchers then analyzed DNA from the collected mushrooms to establish their identities and evolutionary relationships.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The scientific mystery dates back to 1934, when Western researchers learned that people in Papua New Guinea sometimes experienced vivid visions of miniature humans after eating wild mushrooms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Similar mushrooms were known locally as "Nonda" in Papua New Guinea and "Jian shou qing" in Yunnan.
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
They were the children of the mushrooms who’d gone before.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Shortly after I graduated from college, the internet became a global presence, and claims on my attention and everyone else’s mushroomed into a multitude of distractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
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
A thick gray smoke mushroomed up and slowly spread over the neighborhood rooftops and church steeples.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Nurse practitioner roles, which require more advanced training and offer more pay, are mushrooming as more states have given them license to independently practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
It is visible in the mushrooming of private schools in small towns and villages.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
The wave of protests mushrooming around the world has now forced a change of leadership in Madagascar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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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