plum
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Barbera d'Asti, "traditionally dominated by notes of cherry and plum, is increasingly evolving toward more concentrated aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant", Garberoglio said after a tasting.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Choose whatever farmers market flavor is calling to you—apricot, sour cherry, blackberry and red plum would all be excellent this time of year.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The book depicts Mr. Stein as a Boss Tweed-style figure who ran the lifeguarding program as a personal fiefdom, rewarding those loyal to him with plum assignments and punishing those who sought system reform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
When Susie pitched it to me, I didn’t even realize how perfect it was: A prunus vase is usually what they put plum blossoms in, and meiping means beautiful plum vase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Secret mailing spots were picked out all around the neighborhood, such as a certain clump of weeds in an untended parkway or the crotch of a particular plum tree.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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In a whitewashed basement in a village south of Kabul, a dozen young women bustle about, stirring cauldrons of bubbling cherries and plums, and sticking labels on glass jam jars.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The plums in the British Airways lounge at the Rome airport were so juicy I ate two and skipped everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Thanks to a Philippines-Mexico connection, coconut shows up in sweet and savory recipes: ceviche with poached shrimp, coconut limonada and coconut raspado with jammy plums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Adding foods like blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans, and cherries to your daily diet, especially when paired with green tea, could be a simple way to support heart health, according to new research.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
I got a good bargain on plums for Mrs. Diamant.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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First, set the beams level, and shift in or out the motion shaft plummer blocks or bearings, until the piston rod is upright.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.
A.--The trunnion plummer blocks are formed in the same manner as the crank shaft plummer blocks; the nuts are kept from turning back by means of a pinching screw passing through a stationary washer.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.
Pillow Block, Plummer Block, or Pedestal.—The ordinary form of plummer block is represented in fig.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low
An instrument by which the wheel-lock guns and pistols were wound up; also used to screw up the nuts of the plummer boxes.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The same may be said with reference to articles used by the house plummer.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
For women and not a few drag queens, Blanche is considered one of the plummest roles in all of show business, though its psychological complexities can prove debilitating.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
Now, Christie is the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, the plummest of plum speaking gigs and a testament to how quickly he has risen in the GOP firmament.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2012
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