cabbage
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Peta pitched the idea as an opportunity to support local farmers who grow cabbage.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Animal rights activists want a small seaside town to change its annual mackerel festival to celebrate the humble cabbage instead.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The Taylor family is credited with helping to pioneer numerous innovations, from bagged salads to the U.S. industry’s first automated harvesters for romaine lettuce, cabbage and celery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Add shredded cabbage or whatever vegetables you have, let everything soften, and finish with a drizzle of sesame oil or chili crisp.
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Mrs. Wigginbottom became flustered by the attention her stew was getting, and she lumbered off to the kitchen saying she was after more cabbage and bread.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
To have cabbaged at one time all the sail-cloth that was required would have risked discovery; they therefore appropriated small scraps each day, and sewed these neatly together until they had enough.
From The Battle and the Breeze by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
She got a quart, and I cabbaged half for my tea-party.'
From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson
"We cabbaged them; it was the best we could do," said Egan.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis
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 Mark Twain
Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"
From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various
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 John Hunter
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