fruit
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My parents, raised in Ireland and England, thought children should drink milk or fruit juice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In each case, the U.S. resumed inspections and imports of the fruit within a few days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Guibergia, who has been in the business for 25 years, said he planned to pick the grapes and turn them into wine in several separate batches to help limit damage from any contaminated fruit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The long hot dry days have helped ripen the fruit and "keep disease at bay", as Luck puts it.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
A page put a bib on him, another placed a bowl of fresh fruit before him.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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As growth slowed, its fruits were shared less equally than in the preceding half-century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Nearly half of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of its fruits and nuts come from California, according to the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The illness is caused by a parasite, cyclospora, that can contaminate food like salads, herbs and soft fruits.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
"We hope this place will bear the fruits of a deeper return to faith, or at least help people deepen their faith," said the parish priest Marek Mrowczynski.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Like how I’m allergic to raw fruits and vegetables.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The explanation for their propinquity lies not in the creation of some whiz-bang, life-changing, paradigm-bending consumer product, or the shining virtues or particularly fertile minds that grace Silicon Valley’s fruited plain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025
Before long, most cuisines had some sort of fruited breads or cakes that were early versions of the modern fruitcake.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
Home to Lincoln Beer Company, patrons can sip on the brewery’s “perfectly pineapple” fruited wheat pints within sight of the building’s towers, reaching nobly into the Southern California skies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Jake looked down on purple waves for fruited sea.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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A fully realized edible garden, complete with raised beds and fruiting trees, enhances the property’s sense of abundance and connection to nature.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Taczanowskia waska closely resembles the fruiting body of fungi in the genus Gibellula, which grow on spiders.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
To enable robots to navigate fields and harvest efficiently, many farms would need to plant fruiting walls—apple trees that have been trained to grow in dense canopies against flat vertical surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Meghan Markle recently spoke of using nonpsychedelic mushroom supplements to manage anxiety and stress, while across the pond, singer Ellie Goulding just launched her own business, specializing in mushroom lattes made of fruiting body extracts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
They lazed around the house munching berries they’d brought from a fruiting bush.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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