fruit
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He said the cancellation highlighted the challenges climate change posed for sustainable fruit growing.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
In California’s Sacramento Valley, a grower was cited for multiple pesticide safety violations in a stone fruit orchard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
An ode to imperfect fruit: Tangerines that are a breeze to peel.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
The scion above it determines the type of fruit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It doesn’t matter if I turn into a fruit tree in five years, she thought.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Restitution is rarely able to return all of someone’s lost money, but it is supposed to prevent the fraudster from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Higher diesel prices were already pressuring prices for groceries — especially perishables that are trucked to stores, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
With far less leisure time and diminished income, recreational facilities are turned over to food production, notably small-scale greenhouses and vertical farming for producing varied fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
"So, I believe that if we get to a situation in which there's no place to sell my fruits in Europe, we'll find other markets."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was always magically full of fruits and flowers.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
Observing that peaches in the Carolinas germinated easily and fruited heavily, English explorer and naturalist John Lawson wrote in 1700 that "they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees."
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
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
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain.
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
"Seasons no longer follow a pattern. Flowering, fruiting, and harvesting all shift every year because of climate change," says Singh, now 62.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
At Taï, where chimps more often eat fruit that has fallen, the team similarly gathered undamaged and unbitten fruits from the ground below fruiting trees.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
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
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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