pumpkin
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Starbucks is gearing up for a return of favorites such as pumpkin spice lattes in the fall and will begin testing sparkling beverages in a few markets, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The carriage has turned back into a pumpkin, the ballgown is once again just tattered clothing and all the horses have gone back to being mice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
He told us tales of big brinjals, bright pumpkin flowers, sprite okra that grew in the farmland in what’s now Bangladesh, where he grew up.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
A special “Chef’s Table” meal featured pumpkin and ginger soup, a duo of rock lobster and beef tenderloin, and a carrot panna cotta dessert, Moraes posted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
A few poles remained of the village that had once been there, and a few pumpkin mounds with vegetables gone wild.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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The Japanese artist’s mirrored rooms, polka-dot patterns and spotted pumpkins were light-hearted, instantly recognizable works that served as outlets for her own personal struggles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
A couple of the pumpkins are the size of basketballs, with 10 or more smaller ones trying to catch up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
It had been decorated with hundreds and hundreds of candle-filled pumpkins, a cloud of fluttering live bats, and many flaming orange streamers, which were swimming lazily across the stormy ceiling like brilliant watersnakes.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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