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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

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

That means seeking out flavors far beyond the realm of sesame and poppy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

But “Dead Lover” hews closer to Laura Moss’ modern medical take, “birth/rebirth,” and even more closely to Zelda Williams’ cute, poppy “Lisa Frankenstein,” in which a young seamstress stitches up a reanimated boyfriend.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

The bear-paw poppy, Arctomecon californica, is a wildflower found in an isolated comer of the Mojave Desert and nowhere else in the world.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

“Then, from their ideas, we drew out a lot of poppies, peacocks. We took their designs, and we talked to an artist to make it more feasible.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 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

Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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