banana
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The perfect one is raw spinach and banana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Edible Arrangements’ strawberry and banana cones offer the fun of chocolate-dipped fruit without committing to one of the brand’s elaborate arrangements.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
Every Friday, students are offered an egg, while those who do not eat eggs receive a banana instead.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
More than a century ago, psychologist Wolfgang Köhler showed that chimpanzees could suddenly solve unfamiliar problems by combining objects in new ways, such as stacking boxes to reach a banana hanging overhead.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
The houses we passed were more battered than many of those in Cange—dirt floors and roofs of banana fronds that leaked in the rainy season, turning floors to mud.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
The plant material included cultivated wheat, carrots, maize, bananas and peanuts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Lamont’s recommendation therefore, is to exercise patience.”IPOs are like bananas: they need to ripen before they’re ready to eat.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
So when the final whistle sounded, he took it as a cue to go absolutely bananas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The Congolese proverb little by little, grow the bananas emphasises the virtues of patience and steady progress.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
While he was gone, I ate a bowl of oatmeal with sliced bananas.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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