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papaya

[puh-pah-yuh] / pəˈpɑ yə /


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Here I am, in my house, surrounded by a yard filled with passion fruit, papaya, cucumbers, avocados, chard and yes, uchche.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

A few kilometres from Salah's devastated fields, Muhummad Mohamad Ismail, 45, tends with great care to his verdant orange and papaya trees.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

U.S. and Cook Islands government news releases showed him in a suit picking at pieces of pineapple and papaya as he sat opposite a group of diplomats in Hawaiian-style shirts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

His cooks minced the meat with papaya, saffron and spices and made it so fine and silky that it needed no chewing.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

The purgante was her own concoction, a mixture of cod-liver oil and mugwort, milk of magnesia, and green papaya juice, sweetened to disguise the fishy, bitter, chalky taste.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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