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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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Real fruit juice concentrates give them their flavor, resulting in a less artificial taste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The park sits on a 90-acre farm in Keynsham, near Bath, and was once a fruit farm after his dad bought the land more than 30 years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Md Emon Khan, 28, left his garment-factory job in Dhaka and returned to Rooppur, where he now sells vegetables and fruit to workers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Sergio, an artist in his own right, even constructed her first booth to resemble a fruit stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Its branches bowed, heavy with the weight of poisoned fruit.

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

A short drive from Walton, Roy Pearman is reaping the fruits of PIP at the car dealership where he works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It said the shareholder return plan was designed to ensure that the "fruits of the company's growth translate into tangible benefits" for shareholders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

Ms. Lena told us there should be some food from her last trip, and I find lunch meat, bread, beef jerky, ramen noodles, oatmeal, canned soup, and dried fruits.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

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

It’s that season where you’re outdoors and paying attention to the native landscape, to the blooming and the fruiting of everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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

A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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