tangerine
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There are also around 16 fruit trees on the property—including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, and lime trees—as well as a brick-enclosed vegetable garden.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Whether your preference is melon, tangerine, ginger or coral - orange appears to be the big colour trend for next year.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
This ageworthy bottling delivers big acidity, with notes of lime zest, white blossom, tangerine and grilled lemon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Or a whole tangerine and an entire avocado toast, as opposed to a sliver?
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
She spent hours on the riverbank with her little plastic transistor shaped like a tangerine.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Farmers grow passion fruit, pomegranates and tangerines, and islanders relish a fiery shochu liquor made with brown sugar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Citrus lingers — oranges, grapefruit, tangerines — holding onto the last of their brightness like a lantern carried through fog.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
Or, if you’ve ever been to Ojai, you’ll know the sweet, citrusy scent of Pixie tangerines that lingers in the air.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
“Today I ate chips, tangerines and this thing that looked like chili but without the meat - just beans,” the 12-year-old said after lunch on a Friday at I.S.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
It was located in the heart of southern California’s citrus belt, an area that produced almost all of the state’s oranges, lemons, and tangerines.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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