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beet

[beet] / bit /
NOUN
vegetable
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I especially love how it mingles with non-meat dishes, like root vegetables or beet salads, and have put it to the test with notoriously hard-to-pair ingredients like Brussels sprouts and artichokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

More than 100 people across seven villages between Glastonbury and Bridgwater are now growing mangelwurzels, the bright red root crop crossed between beetroot, sugar beet and chard.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

We head to outdoor restaurants where no one is present and the eager wait staff want to feed her bacon and me, my beet salad.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Next month, she said, organizers plan to honor the Japanese-Mexican Labor Assn., a union formed by sugar beet workers in 1903 that conducted a 48-day farmworker strike 123 years ago, long before Chavez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

Now beet sugar set an example of modern farming that helped convince Russian nobles that it was time to free their millions of serfs.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

It’s finely chopped lettuce, cheese, smoked bacon, grilled chicken, avocado, beets and egg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

We experienced this firsthand at the Lighthouse Hotel, where the standard breakfast was a plate of shredded boiled beets piled high, which we dubbed “beet mountain.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

They’re vegetarians: They eat grass, alfalfa, cassava, sweet potato, carrots, beets, and, at the zoo, a commercial feed.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Betaine is a small molecule found in foods like beets and spinach, but the body also makes it on its own.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

Mr. Sharpe was sufficiently canny to see that Bono attempted to direct his attention elsewhere, towards the cook, who was laboring over beets.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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