cabbage
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The first night, I topped bowls with avocado and sour cream; the second, I spooned leftovers over white rice with shredded cabbage and green onion left over from another dinner earlier in the week.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Now, they are trying to stretch out what food remains: instant noodles, carrots, mushrooms and cabbage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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
Leib is a comedian, TV writer, podcaster and cultural journalist who has, to date, never worn cabbage as a hat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
He desperately wanted something more filling and satisfying than cabbage and cabbage soup.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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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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Bacon treats of the instrument in his “Novum Organum;” from which Newton cabbaged his ideas in his “Principia,” in the most unprincipled manner.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841 by Various
Third, against O'Brallaghan; the cause: impudence on various occasions, and slanderous reports relating to cabbaged cloth since the period of their dissolving all connection with each other.
From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten
"We cabbaged them; it was the best we could do," said Egan.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Lewis, Alfred Henry
In an evil moment he "cabbaged" some cloth, was detected, tried, condemned, and sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment.
From Prisoner for Blasphemy by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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
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
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various