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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

Some evidence accepted by the judge -- relating to Facebook messages, cell towers and posts of death cap mushroom sightings -- was not relevant or was unfairly prejudicial to her case, her lawyer said.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

I read about the blusher mushroom, a pale fungus that blooms with beads of a red liquid that looks uncomfortably like blood.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

My supermarket fairly regularly discounts a “gourmet blend” of cremini, shiitake and oyster mushrooms, and I love it.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

Watch the mushrooms more than the clock; a mix containing oyster mushrooms behaves differently than a pan full of white buttons.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

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

She and a dozen colleagues don cotton gloves, roll up their sleeves and plant themselves on cheap plastic stools for the task of separating out the valuable, intact mushrooms from the busted ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Most mushrooms lived only several days, and Clare had expected the fuzzy white knot to quickly shrivel up and return to the earth.

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

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

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

Again, racial equality was being forced upon the South by the federal government, and by 1956, Southern white opposition to desegregation mushroomed into a vicious backlash.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

New data centres -- warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators -- are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.

From Barron's Feb. 26, 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

And they’re not new, although they do seem to be mushrooming.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 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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