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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

The tomatoes have an elongated plum shape and a pointed tip.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

He had a plum seat on the Intelligence Committee and was a co-chair of the Steering Committee, which decides committee assignments for the caucus.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026

“Tonight I might be plum wore out, but today the sun is shining, we got company, and life is good!” her mother continued cheerfully.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

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

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

We worked hard as a family picking eastern Washington crops: cherries, apples, plums, grapes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025

On this side of the lake the forest was more open and the plums and nuts and berries seemed to thrive in the light and heat.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

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

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.

Q.--What kind of plummer blocks are used for the paddle shaft bearings?

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

The eccentric for feathering the floats is fixed to the ship’s side, and sometimes carries a plummer block or pillow block for the paddle shaft bearing.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The plummer block for receiving the thrust of the shaft is shown in fig.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

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