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plum

[pluhm] / plʌm /


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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

We were back to “Succession,” in which the outsider, rather than one of the children, gets the plum job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

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

A breeze stirred the plum boughs, shivering leaves and Sparrow’s hair.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

On those rented 50 acres, Mora grows three varieties of plums, as well as peaches and nectarines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 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

Berries, peaches, cherries, plums — anything that can be washed at home and eaten out of hand.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

He reached down and picked up one of the wild plums he’d jarred from my basket.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

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.

The plummer was hear twice yisterday and the cutworms is awfle.

From The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Martin Field

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


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