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tuber

[too-ber, tyoo-] / ˈtu bər, ˈtyu- /


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What appears to have started as one man’s idea of a joke has spread in recent years, with more households offering the tuber in an effort to give the festivities a topsy-turvy spin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

The movie starts in fictional Chuglass, Idaho, the “potato chip capital of America,” where a giant tuber mascot looms over the town.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2025

A team from the University of Illinois has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

For potatoes, maybe, but probably for something else decisively outside of the tuber realm.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

This doesn’t look like a face but like an unknown vegetable, a mangled bulb or tuber, something that’s grown wrong.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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