sugar cubes
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For a more autumnal spin, I tuck in about ½ cup of cubed, softened butternut squash, a sprinkle of brown sugar, cubes of manchego, and a few torn sage leaves.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
Deadly jellyfish, tiny and iridescent, like sugar cubes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The main trunk’s glacier surface “is so messed up by crevasses it looks like a set of sugar cubes almost. There’s no place to land a plane,” NSF’s Cutler said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Bag fans agree that one of the top collectibles was produced by the now-defunct Finnaviation, an elegant design showing the profile of a blue reindeer spewing what looks like a pile of sugar cubes.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
Then we passed around our little hoard of sugar cubes and crackers and peanuts.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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