chestnut
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Investors are returning from the long weekend with some optimism as that old chestnut — hopes for an Iran peace pact — is helping push bond yields lower and stock futures higher.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Three giant horse chestnut trees, each over 80 feet tall, stand guard in front of my house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The sweet and soft nut plays a large role in traditional mountain cooking and tradition because in places where you couldn’t grow wheat or barley, there were still chestnut trees.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
The Species in Peril report warns others could face a similar fate, including the high brown fritillary butterfly and rainbow-coloured Snowdon leaf beetle, Arctic-Alpine pea mussel, woolly feather-moss and eyed chestnut wrinkle-lichen.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He talks about a recent lunch he made: soup with chestnuts.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
In the Old City, home to a small but vibrant Christian community and several important churches, red baubles hang from some trees, shopkeepers have put up Christmas decorations and street vendors peddle warm chestnuts.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
American-grown chestnuts have been rare since a blight hit our native species over a century ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
How much longer would the world have black Spanish pigs, fed nothing but acorns and chestnuts?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
But she came back with a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street vendor.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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