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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

Heatwaves have battered Europe's sugar beet crop, with France expecting its worst harvest in four years.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Proponents say French sugar beet, apple and hazelnut farmers need the insecticides -- forbidden in France since 2018 and 2019, respectively -- to help them compete with their European counterparts.

From Barron's ● 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

He continued blowing the whistle until his face was beet red, stopping only long enough to shout, “You’re guilty, you’re guilty,” at everyone he passed.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

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

Abatti owns a large farming operation in the Imperial Valley, growing crops including sugar beets, alfalfa and melons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

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

I paid very low prices for peaches, carrots, and beets.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson


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