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tobacco

[tuh-bak-oh] / təˈbæk oʊ /


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In 1614, after years of conflict with the settlers, he married off his teenage daughter Pocahontas to the English tobacco farmer John Rolfe, which brought a temporary truce.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

But if those particles are collected inside a flask, they form a dense suspension of burned tobacco -- a tar-like sludge.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Macnab likened this climate case to the successful series of lawsuits against big tobacco companies in the 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Trading Standards has described the proliferation of shops selling illicit tobacco as an "explosion" across Scotland's high streets.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

He’d often smelled of the same sort of tobacco, aromatic, a little strong, but, unlike cigarette smoke, pleasant.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

For hobbies he collects pipes, strangely blended tobaccoes, old clocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

One need only put his head in at my door to realize that tobaccoes are of two kinds, the Arcadia and others.

From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Nevertheless, there was one black week when we all smoked the ordinary tobaccoes.

From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast

I have given orders to the Farmers-General to treat in preference, and at a reasonable price, for the purchase of the tobaccoes of North America.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI by Jared Sparks

The sentries, outposts and vedettes forbear musketry; on the contrary, exchange tobaccoes sometimes, and have a snatch of conversation.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle

The shift from traditional smoking of indigenous tobaccos and other plants to commercial tobaccos has had “significant deleterious effects on tribal culture and health,” the study said.

From Washington Times Nov. 3, 2018

“It’s something we’ve been planning for,” said David Sylvia, a spokesman for Altria Group, the parent company of John Middleton, which manufactures the popular Black & Mild cigar brand and a variety of pipe tobaccos.

From Washington Post Mar. 24, 2013

The few groups that did not benefit from Wall Street's afterthoughts on Lebanon and Iraq were defensive issues such as tobaccos and foods, which have been recession favorites.

From Time Magazine Archive

Originally he satisfied a penchant for modest yachting and the blending of fine tobaccos from a fashionable harness and leather-goods business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Closely related species replace each other geographically among the amaranths, beans, chenopods, chili peppers, cottons, squashes, and tobaccos.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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