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pumpkin

[puhmp-kin, puhng-kin] / ˈpʌmp kɪn, ˈpʌŋ kɪn /
NOUN
vegetable
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Some autumnal ale: It can be delightful when craft breweries churn out seasonally inspired flavors, but what happens when we start being served pumpkin beer in August, or Christmas beer before Halloween?

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Or add all the ingredients from mom’s pumpkin pie recipe that someone, at some point, texted to you, to your shopping list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

In addition, they run a popular pumpkin event which attracts around 120,000 people each year.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

As for the Wolverines, it’s barely pumpkin carving season, and it’s getting ugly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Mr. Ramirez made chili corn bread, and Ms. Ramirez made pumpkin empanadas and Brussels sprouts with chorizo.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

With the biggest whoppers selling for upwards of £15 a piece, a fun family day out pushing wheelbarrows full of pumpkins can become costly, yet some attractions sell out quickly.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

As her success blossomed, Kusama’s fiberglass sculptures of flowers and pumpkins got bigger, her palette brightened and her installations became more kaleidoscopic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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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