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Seeing eggs, rice, yogurt in writing makes it easier to recognize what a bunch of greens or a basket of cucumbers could become—and easier to pivot when the ingredient I imagined isn’t there.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
"You wouldn't send someone in your family out to get the weekly shop without any kind of detailed instructions as to what you expect in that shopping basket, right?"
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“But that’s also why we entertain a lot at home. I now have a phone basket that I use to take everyone’s phones away!”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
When Broussard and his friend attempted to put Catzilla into the fishing basket, with the intention of then releasing it, the 50-pounder violently thrashed and slipped free.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The drone of Auntie Matchmaker’s voice floated after me as I pulled the clamp-frame out of the basket.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Ushers stood at all the exits of Great Festival Hall with baskets for donations for Venezuela.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
By then, the baskets had been picked over.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Divers’ primary tool was a vacuum-like system called a dredge, which sucked up sediment from inside the wreck and deposited it into baskets on the sea floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The researchers placed two of these baskets opposite one another.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The wagon slowed to a creaking halt before us, all wind-shorn wood and rusty nails, its bed heaped with green squashes and baskets of peaches.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
