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cinnamon

[sin-uh-muhn] / ˈsɪn ə mən /


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Or skip the coffee and steep cinnamon stalks in hot water with lime.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

For those concerned about sugar intake, Lev Sercarz has also touted the benefits of cinnamon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Simply fry your sliced bananas in a large pan with a cooked mixture of butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

Maybe it’s perfumed with orange zest and cinnamon.

From Salon Jun. 18, 2026

Knowing Mama, she’ll make roasted sweet potatoes drizzled with honey and sprinkled with cinnamon, like she always does on special occasions.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

It's an Ashkenazi recipe — with apples and cinnamons, bound by apricot jam and blackberry wine — that Ziggy and his kitchen staff will spend the next few days preparing by the truckload, literally.

From Salon Apr. 14, 2022

Didn't know anything about bear when I went into the country, exceptin' when I was a youngster I'd seen a heap of cinnamons and that little black kind.

From Dutch Courage and Other Stories by London, Jack

So close were they that we could see the markings of every feather—the iridescence of the heads, the delicate, wave-marked cinnamons and grays and browns, even the absurd little curled plumes over the tails.

From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward

My pop he sayed I ain't got need to waste my time gettin' learnt them cinnamons.

From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Martin, Helen Reimensnyder

When the three men joined us and were talking about the bears, one of them shouted, "Here come two more," and before we could realize it we saw two good-sized cinnamons at the feast.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various




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