apricot
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"Its taste and aroma are royal. The apricot is a wonder of wonders."
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
But the King seemed to enjoy some of the less usual beers on offer, including one with an apricot flavour.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
It also offers a variety of seeds for black, white, purple, Cleveland and hummingbird sages, as well as apricot mallow, showy penstemon, yarrow, California poppies, caterpillar phacelia and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Already, a previous warm weather spell forced him to harvest apricots five days earlier than planned this year, on May 1, he said.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
She shaves his face, massages his head, slices apples and apricots for his breakfast each morning.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024
The dried apricots and figs should be quartered, and the apple diced to a similar size.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2024
But for long, long decades before, Santa Clara County was “the Valley of Heart’s Delight,” a bee-and-blossom Eden of fragrant fruit: cherries, apricots, and mostly plums for prunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
They came running, both of them, and Mom said, "Sam said 'thank you' when I gave him a bite of apricots!"
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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