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peanut

[pee-nuht, -nuht] / ˈpiˌnʌt, -nət /
NOUN
nut
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She’s like an Auntie Mame, only her version of extravagance is peanut butter sundaes at Serendipity 3, a course at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and tickets to see Diana Rigg on Broadway in “Medea.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Maybe it’s homemade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made on pillowy Wonder Bread, with the crusts cut off.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

Katie, a businesswoman from Cardiff, and husband Neil Jennings, 49, applied for Yann to attend a medical trial in London for peanut allergy in toddlers when he was three.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

It will not change your weight on a bathroom scale or alter how manufacturers measure ingredients like peanut butter for a 16-ounce jar.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

“Probably sudden-onset peanut allergies; I read about that on the AskADoc.com site the other day.”

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.

From Barron's Jul. 25, 2026

Put this all together and farmers — mainly large-scale row-crop producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice and peanuts — are already set to receive roughly $55 billion from the U.S.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

They designed an experiment to mimic natural feeding in the wild - using peanuts.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Its holding is worth about $115 million at the current stock price — peanuts for a company that collects revenue of about $5 billion a year.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Ma would need to sell more water, more charcoal, more peanuts.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat




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