sweet
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Another commented: "This is such a sweet series. It's like a warm cosy blanket on a snowy winter day."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
"There's no choice between things like IP protection and AI, or economic growth and growing AI. You've got to get the sweet spot where you get them both in the same place," McDonald said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Nerds, Nutter Butters and Sour Patch Kids are turning up in sweet collaborations on restaurant menus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
It was this sweet little moment before she goes and joins Anton in the closet, where they look at me and are like, “So, you’re really married?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
What should be sweet and chewy is hard and tastes vaguely like gravel.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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The Guardian newspaper once quoted him as saying: "I've always said what's the point in owning a sweet shop if you can't eat a few sweets."
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Catherine, meanwhile, had run to seed and spent as much time as possible lying in bed eating sweets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
WSJ: How are consumers responding to new restrictions on what shoppers can buy with food stamps, including sweets in some states?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Seventeen days of drama, tension and pressure, all with the crowd so close they can touch the players – or offer them sweets.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
For weeks, a giggling Oak tried to glamour me into getting him sweets or lifting him above my head or spitting at the dinner table.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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Thinking of it that way makes life sweeter, too.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
It would be even sweeter to play alongside his brother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Indian mango—Alphonso from Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri coast, Kesar from Gujarat, Chausa and Langra from the north, Banganapalli from the south—is richer, sweeter and fiercely seasonal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Victory was made even sweeter for scorer Ben Waine by the fact that he is a boyhood fan of Sunderland's big rivals Newcastle.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
The jeepney will circle the neighborhood while selling halo-halo, a sweet concoction of ice, milk, red beans, tapioca pearls, jackfruit, and coconut flesh—with even sweeter condensed milk drizzled on to stir in.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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“Hayden Panettiere is the sweetest thing in the world,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It might be the sweetest thing I’ve ever tasted—and was the only drink I couldn’t finish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Now the 74-year-old club legend walks away - if indeed he does walk away - with a Premiership and Scottish Cup double which will go down as one of their sweetest, given the circumstances.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
These days, Thompson’s music is among the sweetest.
From Salon ● May 15, 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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