candy
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“Cover me in candy, I’m so lucky that I get to know you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Better to eat candy than starve to death.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Several TikTokers influencers claim you can save money and be the coolest house on the block with bigger candy this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
It’s a cheap indulgence, but what Halloween candy isn’t?
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Aunt Kitty studied her licorice tin, opening it slowly and popping a candy into her mouth.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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The argument is that the variety packs of 120 mini Halloween candies run between $18 and $20 — but they don’t necessarily serve 100 kids, because trick-or-treaters tend to grab handfuls.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
These fruit-shaped Asian candies with a dual-layer gelatin framework have become a TikTok darling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hershey has faced similar litigation over other seasonal Reese’s candies, including ghost-shaped chocolates without depicted facial features and football-shaped candies that lacked the laces shown on their packaging.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
"I don't know how long we will be like this," said Stefani Garate, 26, who used to sell coconut candies on the beach.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
A bowl of pomegranates with ruby-red skin and some waxed-paper-wrapped peanut candies sat in one of Mama’s sweetgrass baskets on Doc’s worktable next to a deck of playing cards.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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If you find candied citrus peel, toss some in; if not, use the zest of a full orange.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Cake fillings of almond crunch and toasted pecan praline and candied lemon, while jackfruit and palm sugar bring distinct South-East Asian flavours.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
There’s the Ukrainian poppy seed cake makivnyk, the Middle Eastern hot chocolate sahlep, the Spanish nougat turrón and the Chinese candied fruit tanghulu, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
The company also has seasonal offerings, including a cookie butter latte and a candied cherry energy drink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
There was a bakery store to one side of it which sold beautiful charlotte russes with red candied cherries on their whipped cream tops for those who were rich enough to buy.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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Some confectioners infuse their candying syrup with botanicals, like bay leaves, rosemary or peppercorns, for added intrigue.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
It’s subtle but transformative to know what sugar feels like in your fingers at different stages of candying.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
If left for a few weeks longer on the trees, they expand, and become what are termed "mother cloves," fit only for seed or for candying.
For people had to provide for winter, and there was much pickling and preserving and candying of fruits, and storing commoner things so that they would keep well.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas
A little practice will enable the candy-maker to form objects that look more like violets than do the flowers themselves after they have been put through the candying process.
From Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables by Mary Elizabeth Hall
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