spud
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She believes the spud frenzy is all about the sheer surprise and novelty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Cedric Porter, a potato market expert, said the rise in spud prices had been "dramatic".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
Cantwell is right to defend the spud against this line of attack.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
But the case, like so many others, fell by the flesh of the spud.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Dennis had the craving, so he did, for a nice sheep’s head with a bit of cabbage and a spud so up with me to Barry the butcher with the last few shillings I had.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
With spuds a staple on our dinner tables, this is the time of year when early potatoes usually get planted.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
Eda Kalkay, of Red Bank, N.J., says she learned that lesson two years ago when she served up the spuds alongside the candy and found almost no takers, save for one group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
First, you’d remove the spuds from their plastic bag.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
The side of pureed potatoes was a reminder, however bittersweet, that no marriage can rival the perfect union of butter and spuds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2023
But not many compared with the number of brilliant sofa spuds.
From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman
The first horizontal well in the Bakken was spudded by Meridian Oil in 1987, long before the current boom.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2013
Meanwhile, we’re drilling and just spudded on December 31st, the Lineham Creek well you see onshore Louisiana there.
From Forbes ● Feb. 21, 2012
The country's first commercial oil well was spudded in nearby Moonie.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2011
Companies like Sinclair, British Petroleum, Union Oil and Atlantic-Richfield spudded about 30 wells and came up with nothing worthwhile.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I've been just 'Billie' to all Limasito since the first well was spudded in; you don't want the boys to think you're putting notions into my head, do you?"
From The Fifth Ace by Gage, George W.
Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hugh used to trot about with him, spudding up weeds from the lawn.
From Hugh Memoirs of a Brother by Benson, Arthur Christopher
