berry
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Many people are reconsidering their Caesar salad lunches and berry breakfasts as cases of cyclosporiasis, the explosive-diarrhea illness, continue to rise in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Those include rival Rogue’s mango-flavored pouches and Velo’s wild berry and dragon fruit flavors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Participants drank a banana based smoothie, a mixed berry smoothie, and a flavanol capsule used as a control.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
One woman who worked at a berry farm before the steel mill opened told him “as soon as that plant fired up … everything died.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
But the taste of the berry seemed to banish fear.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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This summer, people are looking askance at the lettuce leaves perched atop their burgers and the berries swimming in their ice tea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
I always get berries at the market, too, like raspberries and blueberries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The heat makes berries slump and burst, pooling the pan with juices that turn thick, glossy and intensely flavored as they cook, a concentration that maceration alone simply can’t achieve.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some batches are heavy on berries, some heavy on melon, but no two are the same.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
On termite mounds Nhamo discovered jabvane bushes with purplish black fruit, and in dense thickets near the water grew brambles with dark, sweet berries.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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The floral arrangements used “English foliage — holly, berried ivy and red skimmia,” and the tree was to be recycled to be viewed by holiday visitors to Windsor.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2022
In fall, masses of winter pansies, ornamental kale and berried shrubs replace tender plantings in the massive window box and containers, while the trim boxwood hedges and clipped hollies carry the show throughout winter.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
The kissing bunch of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs. Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In order that the female lobsters may be secured the authorities of Maine permit the fishermen to catch and sell "berried" lobsters to the Commission.
From The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 by John N. (John Nathan) Cobb
De ole Daltons wuz berried on de Ole Jimmy Scales plantation.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Of course, I’m not going to follow her, although it would be easier than playing On the Track, the game we made up when went berrying or food gathering.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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I’m beginning to think she’s gone fishing or berrying and will not return until dusk.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Joe and Marly did so much berrying, what with strawberries and then red raspberries and then blackberries, that Joe said he was absolutely berried-out.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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They go berrying to their hearts’ content, too.
From Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
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