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This outbreak seems to be in the sweet spot where a really bad outcome is possible if you get infected, but you’re probably going to be OK.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

A sea level "sweet spot" roughly 10 to 40 meters above modern levels produced the strongest carbon burial.

From Science Daily Jul. 16, 2026

“You can use it to trick your mind to think that a dish is sweet and reduce upwards to 20-30% percent of the sugar content,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

“It is a very sweet watercolor of a funny old thing in a flowery dress and bonnet,” Neill said of the artwork.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

She sounded so sweet, so warm, so fake.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The 54-year-old also offered to pay for their sweets and snacks.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Afterwards, she said she was ready to quit tennis, but she quickly got over the disappointment thanks to a "couple bags of chips and some sweets".

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

"I thought Canada is safe," he said, next to sweets spread out on the boxing ring's mat, part of festivities marking the Persian New Year, called Nowruz.

From Barron's Mar. 27, 2026

“All the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in his mind,” Emerson writes, “as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

He stopped at the shack to buy a big clay bowl of sweets.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

It would be even sweeter to play alongside his brother.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

It’s essentially something between olive oil and olio santo, except it’s a little sweeter and less spicy.

From Salon Jun. 11, 2026

"For exports we prefer the NMK-01 variety because it has better shelf life, thicker skin, more pulp, and a sweeter taste compared to others," he says.

From BBC May 25, 2026

There’s hardly a sweeter spot in the country for a fishy meal by the sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

The cake smell got stronger and sweeter, and then I saw the pink house.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo

Despite Mary’s misfit qualities, she exhibits a kindness that even the sweetest of her sisters, Jane, lacks.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

“Six months ago I met the love of my life. The world’s most beautiful, sweetest person,” a choked-up Lægreid said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2026

"The first title is always the sweetest compared to the others, but this eighth one is a kind of confirmation. Nobody would have thought that one day De Vlaeminck's record would be broken," he said.

From Barron's Feb. 1, 2026

His foster family described him as "the sweetest, kindest boy who put others before himself."

From BBC Jan. 29, 2026

It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:—“Day its fervid fires had wasted,” and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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