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When he wasn’t on camera, he would sit on an apple box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Carter's company has more than 1,250 acres of apple orchards in Washington, and the fruit is grown for sliced apple portions – often sold to hotels and schools, for example.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
And Sarah explained to me that, in fact, the vast majority of people can see an apple, which still seems fictional to me, like science fiction stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Next year, as a single filer, the surviving spouse will face higher tax on the same income, making this potentially their last bite of the low-tax apple.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Holding the stick out in front of him, still uttering those deep grunts, he started beating at the apple as if he was killing a snake.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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“When I looked at reclassified students from one district to another, I couldn’t compare apples to apples,” said Manuel Buenrostro, policy director at Californians Together, an advocacy group that co-sponsored the bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
“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
Neil MacDonald, who manages more than 1,000 acres of Somerset orchards, says he has watched half his apples fall before they have ripened, because the trees are stressed by the drought.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Aunt Pretty told me that when she was growing up, the only dolls country girls had were made of rags, dried apples, or clothespins.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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