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If you kept dividing an apple into smaller and smaller pieces, you would eventually reach molecules, then atoms, and later the tiny particles inside atoms such as protons, quarks, and gluons.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

The golds and apple at the center is all the ways that people love their neighbor, pursue the good, the true, and the beautiful, build little platoons.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

But according to the New York library, the kangaroo toy that inspired Roo "was lost in an apple orchard during the 1930s".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

I’ve done it with apples — layering applesauce, apple butter and roasted fruit into a cake that tastes like fall — and with egg salad, where richness builds from every direction.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

So, “we used to tie an apple to a string and move the string up and down … making a strange noise every time it would rebound.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock