bean

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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

"The money I was anticipating from my cocoa bean sales is currently inaccessible. I'm a widow now and I don't have anyone to support me," said Frimpong.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 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

Or a white bean, feta and quick-pickled celery salad.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

When everyone had left, his mother and sister went back to picking off the tails of all the bean sprouts.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh