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bean

[been] / bin /
NOUN
small hard pellet
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Search for fibermaxxing on social media and you’ll see any number of recipes for chia pudding and bean salad, as well as influencers talking up the benefits of a high-fiber diet.

From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026

Taylor says the buns are handmade in a bakery that handles nuts, the oil the kitchen uses is soya bean vegetable oil and sesame seeds on the buns "cover the entire kitchen".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

C.O.C. runs its own co-op farms in 10 of them, where they grow and process rare varietals like Liberica, a bean that accounts for less than 2% of global coffee production.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“Corporal Jarvis’ deployment of the less-lethal bean bag shotgun at that distance was in accordance with his training and reasonable under the circumstances,” the report states.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

If you get a basket, you get a jelly bean.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko




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