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[ap-uhl] / ˈæp əl /








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I had an eating disorder, which is still kind of … You know, last night, I asked for apple juice during the show — I was in trouble because I wasn’t eating.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

“Regulating AI is not a progressive issue. It is not a conservative issue. It is as American as apple pie,” Sanders said, following a week in which AI concerns broke through with the general public.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

As the German political theorist Werner Sombart wrote in 1906, in America “all socialist utopias came to nothing on roast beef and apple pie.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

It might also mean a thick slice of homemade apple Bundt cake under a generous coat of cream cheese icing, eaten with coffee.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

Then, dropping the tin can he was holding in his paw, he reached over and took the apple from my hand.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“There are bad apples in this space, including fly-by-night operators,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Quips fell out of her like apples from a tree, ripening and landing at just the right time in any conversation.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

"We would normally harvest 20-30 tonnes of apples here," he tells me, walking through one orchard.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Gravity is best known as the force that pulls objects toward Earth, but its role extends far beyond falling apples.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

A huge apple tree, its branches bent to the earth with the weight of apples.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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