necessary food

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On a web page updated on Sept. 10, the agency wrote the “USDA recognizes this is a significant disruption that has left locations without acceptable inventories of necessary food items.”

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024

To reproduce, the wasp needs to find a host that will supply the necessary food for her young.

From Scientific American • Feb. 16, 2021

Lew Sherr, the U.S.T.A.’s chief revenue officer, said that even with all the savings from not having to provide the necessary food, amenities and security for some 800,000 spectators, profits are off 80 percent.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2020

Over the years, smugglers from Syrian cities such as Palmyra and Al-Dumayr have brought in medicine and necessary food items—rice, flour, olive oil—but have sold them at high prices.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 26, 2018

If, however, you require the imagines for breeding, you must be careful that the eggs are not laid long before the buds of the necessary food plants are due.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.