cabbage
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The Taylor family is credited with helping to pioneer numerous innovations, from bagged salads to the U.S. industry’s first automated harvesters for romaine lettuce, cabbage and celery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Genetic diversity is a resource for us too as humans, especially the wild relatives of crops. We've got quite a few in Wales, like sea radish, sea carrot, sea cabbage," said Kevin.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
I was reading about how New Orleans gets down at the St. Pat’s parade and did you know they throw onions and cabbage at people?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
This season it’s red cabbage, which I’ve shaved into rice bowls, sushi bowls, chilaquiles and quick slaws.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2026
Even the food is surreal: corned beef and cabbage with pumpkin pie that’s still frozen in the middle for dessert.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To have cabbaged at one time all the sail-cloth that was required would have risked discovery; they therefore appropriated small scraps each day, and sewed these neatly together until they had enough.
From The Battle and the Breeze by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
They run out of all they cabbaged here perty quick.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg
The shorn tailor left the office protesting that Sir Peter had not treated him handsomely, as he had only consented to sacrifice his flowing locks, but that the Alderman had cabbaged his whiskers as well.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
All except one—that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark
The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.
From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by Hunter, John
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark