spruce
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Here are seven ways to spruce up your favorite chia seed recipes:
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
Nagi says that the conversation motivated her to visit the boy's slum community and she offered to spruce up the locality by decorating the walls with murals.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
The researchers found that beetles feeding on spruce trees absorb defensive compounds from the phloem, especially phenolic glycosides such as stilbenes and flavonoids.
From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026
Yet for investors considering any last-minute “window dressing” to spruce up their portfolios before liquidity tends to dry up during the year-end holiday period, Sutherland of Schroders said that’s not a good idea.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 14, 2025
High in the spruce tree in front of me is a large nest of sticks and—climbing up toward it—Alice.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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