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beet

[beet] / bit /
NOUN
vegetable
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A consultation will be held over the proposals, which would concentrate British Sugar's beet processing operations at Wissington in west Norfolk, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk and Newark in Nottinghamshire.

From BBC Jul. 21, 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

Benali added that sugar beet, citrus and vegetable farms had also been devastated by flooding.

From Barron's Feb. 13, 2026

Which confuses me more, ’cause her face is still wet, her eyes beet red.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

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

The last factory in California that turns sugar beets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years, according to the company that owns the factory.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2025

I realized how difficult it was for Miss Grybas to steal beets for us.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys




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