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vegetable

[vej-tuh-buhl, vej-i-tuh-] / ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl, ˈvɛdʒ ɪ tə- /


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Vegetable oils—up 3.3% compared with January—hit their highest levels since June 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Its “Country Vegetable Plate” — a choose-your-own adventure of classic sides with biscuits or corn muffins — is proof that pleasure need not center a protein.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Vegetable vendor Shivnarayan Dasana had never seen so many policemen descend on his village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

Vegetable protein is the thing; and of course athletes have to perform in a country of a thousand epicurean delights that are no-noes to their exacting nutritionists.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

She took the bottle of Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound from the drawer and held it up to the light.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck



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