earthy
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Other dishes have relied on the earthy sweetness of sunchokes and cassava.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
These days, wellness products that used to be branded in spiritual and soft, earthy, non-Western ways during the Goop era are now promoted by men in tight black T-shirts talking about optimization and hard science.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
So a new earthy yellow hue was mixed and dubbed “Lauenstein Yellow.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The smell of sweet milk hung in the air, mixed with the earthy musk of manure.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
In Langston Hughes’ words I can smell that earthy clay in the front yard.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Fans of her earthier material won't be disappointed, though.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kombuchas made from black tea and pu-erh, meanwhile, displayed richer, earthier aromas with more pronounced fermentation characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
But for those of us with slightly earthier tastes, she remains the indelible Barbara Kean of the bygone, Batman-adjacent “Gotham.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Black beans bring a deeper, earthier tone; pintos are soft and nutty, more traditional.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025
The house is less tidy than it was a week ago, the disinfectant smell displaced by something earthier.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Where it runs into some turbulence — and despite the best efforts of everyone involved in director Eric Schaeffer’s accomplished production, it eventually does — is in its earthiest realm.
From Washington Post
It is in Waverly that Humphrey is at his earthiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
On and on John babbles in some of the earthiest colloquialisms ever to come out of Goldwater country.
From Time Magazine Archive
In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I stayed where I was, the earthiest worldling in a dress of unworldliness.
From Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' by Helen Mason Groce
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