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poppy

[pop-ee] / ˈpɒp i /


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Apart from poppy seeds, the product also contains sesame seeds, sea salt, minced garlic and minced onion.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

His daughter, Felicia Helen Parazaider, also posted on Facebook that “I love you poppy, my Pal...You coloured our world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Flowers played a prominent role, with a spray of daffodils bursting from one skirt or the red-orange petals of California's poppy, the state flower, cascading down a dress.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

PopUp bagels are not much bigger than a palm, and come in just five flavors: plain, poppy, salt, sesame and everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

“I don’t wax on about my worship. It’s personal. And honestly, poppy seed soup, bah.”

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

As late as the 1800s, most commodities were cultivated: Cinnamon bark was peeled and rolled into quills, opium juiced from poppies, and tea leaves dried out in the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The soldiers are shadowed by an allegorical figure carrying poppies, symbolizing sleep—an analog, in the art of the time, for death—and a laurel branch symbolizing peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

John Pickles, a "postcode gardener" with Friends of the Earth, said a patch of grass on the Orchard Park estate had been brought to life with flowers including ox-eye daisies, purple thistles and yellow poppies.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Times Plants newsletter will receive Jeanette’s Mix, a special packet of colorful sunflower seeds and California poppies that Marantos hoped to offer this year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

He’d looked out the window where fields of white poppies stretched all the way to the shadowy hills.The whiteness hurt his eyes, and so he turned from them with relief to the cool darkness inside.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer




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