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[broun] / braʊn /


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The team examined 56 japonica rice cultivars collected from across Japan, including brown, red, green, and black varieties.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

Manhunters morph to fit in with the population around them, but the skin your character chooses is that of a brown Indian woman.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

They shimmer from the pages like bright bits of stained glass, and their names are equally enchanting: common blue, painted lady, Queen of Spain fritillary, black-veined white and northern brown argus, among others.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Satellite imagery over the Atlantic on Wednesday 9 September shows a large, brown and hazy area which is a dry, dusty later in the atmosphere moving toward the US.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

Joey is suddenly wide awake, blinking her dark brown eyes at her new home as the ambulance comes to a stop.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The meat browns, the tortilla crisps, and when you flip it, everything holds together like it was always meant to.

From Salon May 22, 2026

Breakfast options include the sausage McMuffin, sausage biscuit, sausage burrito, hash browns, and a medium coffee—all at under $3 each.

From Barron's Apr. 21, 2026

Hansen was drawn to the beautiful shades of blues, greens and browns that the surface reveals if you’re patient enough.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

This year they’re going further, with McDonald’s next month offering deals such as a new $3 and less menu, which includes a McDouble or fries or hash browns, according to people familiar with the plan.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

He paints a pair of shoes, one sole up, one sole down, browns and tans, with light and white, though he is still using black.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Elsewhere, the data highlights more localised hotspots of stress around Peterborough, Lincolnshire and parts of mid and east Devon, where fields also appear significantly browner than a year ago.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

We found that in browner waters, fish often grow more slowly.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Yukon is the smallest and browner, while Marty and Monty are gray.

From Seattle Times Jan. 27, 2023

Today, how Southern Californians will have to get used to browner lawns — and why even that might not make a dent in a historic drought.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2022

The Harfoots were browner of skin, smaller, and shorter, and they were beardless and bootless; their hands and feet were neat and nimble; and they preferred highlands and hillsides.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“I’m not going to be supportive of defunding cultural events in the brownest city in Orange County and making the public choose between celebrating our culture or giving mutual aid,” said Councilmember Johnathan Hernandez.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2025

"I'd look at certain celebrities who've got like white decor in the house, I'm like, 'who would choose white? I've gone for the brownest brown so that it hides the dirt," she said.

From BBC Feb. 4, 2024

Young, rich Stephen Carlton Clark had married Susan Hun, descendant of brownest, trimmest Albany ancestors.

From Time Magazine Archive

He ate the biggest, brownest and best parts of the chicken at every Sunday meal.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

In Hawaiian, “maka” means eyes, and Kumu Maka’s are the biggest and brownest.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Already this year, thousands of white spruce trees in the area around Wisley had browned leaves in early August, a sign they won’t cope with a hotter climate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Sauté onions and garlic in olive oil, add ground chicken and cook until almost browned, then pour in tomato sauce and let everything simmer.

From Salon May 22, 2026

The dish, made of browned ground beef, rice and basically whatever else you have on hand, has inspired hundreds of posts since January.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

It needs only a brief bloom — fragrant, not browned.

From Salon Apr. 7, 2026

Slightly browned and buttered, just how I like them.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Even zoomed-out satellite imagery of western France shows a striking increase in the browning of land compared to last year.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Brook trout abundance was not affected by freshwater browning.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Less diner throwback, more quiet luxury: a deeply savory loaf built for structure and real browning, with bronzed edges and a plush, sliceable interior.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2026

Potatoes need to be plucked from the ground and handled with care to prevent browning that can mar otherwise perfect chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

Now she was moving away to a land she knew little of, except the skillet of olive oil with crumbles of garlic and pine nuts browning on the stove.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye




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