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pumpkin

[puhmp-kin, puhng-kin] / ˈpʌmp kɪn, ˈpʌŋ kɪn /
NOUN
vegetable
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As for the Wolverines, it’s barely pumpkin carving season, and it’s getting ugly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Consider a slice of pumpkin pie: This is “prime pumpkin season” in Illinois, the country’s top supplier of the gourd, said Jacob Goebbert, co-owner and operations manager of a farm in South Barrington, Ill.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The tribute featured photos of the sisters as kids at a pumpkin patch and celebrating Kramer’s birthday at a Japanese steakhouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look suspiciously like brownie batter.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

And the smile on that ghastly orange pumpkin face looked more like a wicked smirk.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

A twilight stroll through “Carved” at Descanso Gardens is like walking through a Halloween fairy tale, as exquisitely designed pumpkins surround and dazzle us in glowing installations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Illinois’s harvest includes pumpkins for pie fillings this fall.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The dotty pumpkins and kaleidoscope rooms of Yayoi Kusama, who has died aged 97, were as vibrant as the artist herself, but her exuberant work was the expression of a long battle with mental illness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

The time of year had come when the after-school hours were growing shorter and shorter, and I had pumpkins to attend to.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg




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