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potato

[puh-tey-toh, -tuh] / pəˈteɪ toʊ, -tə /
NOUN
vegetable
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The recalled potato chips were seasoned in a dry milk powder sourced from a California dairy cooperative that may contain salmonella, the FDA said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

DWS’s Catrambone pointed to households already paying $4 a gallon for gas nationally — and $5 for potato chips.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026

PepsiCo has been working to bring customers back to its snacks business, including by cutting prices across its portfolio and restaging several of its largest brands, such as Lay’s potato chips and Gatorade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

“In collective struggles — the Civil Rights Movement, today’s pro-democracy movement, the fight for immigrants’ rights — the potato is going to get really hot.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

Penelope gave a slow spin to the makeshift globe she had fashioned out of a roundish potato and a long birch twig that had been whittled to a point.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood