fruit
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Chief Executive Stephane de La Faverie said Estee Lauder’s turnaround is bearing fruit, with another quarter of sales growth and stronger profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
For instance, robots that last year could not pick up fruit now do so -- an important breakthrough as "we have a big need for agricultural applications", he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The UK Home Office says its work with countries like Germany "is bearing fruit".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
We plant fruit trees, which provide the insects with sustenance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The greengrocer’s wife who had let me sleep on her roof, next to a mat of drying fruit.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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The U.S. manufacturing sector is enjoying the fruits of the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Part of the scarab family, the beetle has an apt name: they munch on soft-skinned fruits such as figs and grapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The diet emphasizes fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, nuts, and olive oil — and limiting foods like red meat, cheese and sugar.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Don't you dare think the Australian fruits and ours are the same. Ignorance is pathetic," said one social media comment.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I forgot about your allergy. You really can’t have any raw fruits or 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
"The newly decorated restaurant, Hoo's On First, the eatery of athletes, will hold its grand reopening on Sunday. Specialty of the day: fruited sea bass on purple waves."
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
His photography focuses on the fruiting bodies of the slime mould, where the colour and drama are most intense, and from where spores are released.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
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
You’ve been up Kindcreek Road before; it cuts through a wild patch of hill country, flanked by fruiting prickly pears and disheveled oak.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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