spoons

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Armed with spoons, they test the samples in a rapid-fire process of slurping and spitting into metal sinks they call “spittoons.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

But here’s the thing: there are nights when you don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Ivorian schoolchildren crowd around masks, finely carved turtles, and ceremonial spoons once admired by visitors of Zurich's Rietberg Museum.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Old wives’ tales of silver spoons turning black when they touch a poisonous mushroom, or that only bright-colored or foul-tasting mushrooms are unsafe are false, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

That led some of the boys to cut spoons out of scraps of metal so they could scoop their food without burning their fingers.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau