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mushroom

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


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This is also when I deploy what I lovingly think of as my potions and powders: anchovy, tomato paste, miso, soy sauce, fish sauce, bouillon paste or cubes, mushroom and brown gravy powder.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Benwell described it as "the mushroom of fairy tales".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The problem, says Lharong Drolma, a second-generation mushroom picker who is unrelated to Sonam Drolma, is that “fewer people are buying them, probably because the economy was already bad.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Where a kilogram of matsutakes might have fetched 200 yuan a year ago, equivalent to about $30, mushroom pickers are lucky to walk away with 150 yuan these days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

He was the only mushroom in the garden who had not been transplanted, the only one who truly belonged exactly where he was.

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

Outside of tourism and picking matsutake mushrooms, there are few other sources of wealth in this rugged, historically impoverished corner of China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Sometimes you've just got to look through the leaf litter a bit, and you'd be amazed at the colours and different shapes and sizes of mushrooms you can find when you do look," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

For their first course guests enjoyed yellow squash, wild mushrooms and crispy pancetta.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

In the next few days he discovered additional sources of nourishment: groundnuts, mulberries, wild mustard, wild onions, new kinds of mushrooms, spearmint, peppermint, and milkweed.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

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

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The difference between its VolDex series tracking expected volatility in the tech-laden Nasdaq 100 Index and one tracking the S&P 500 has mushroomed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026

Complaints have mushroomed for months about World Cup ticket price fluctuations caused by sophisticated algorithms that can dramatically increase costs based on demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

From the original eight thousand talents left by Cleomenes, the treasury of Ptolemy II Philadelphus mushroomed to 740,000 talents—-a handsome 9,150 percent increase.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

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

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

Drug deductibles—the amount you pay up front before coverage kicks in—are mushrooming for many.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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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