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carrot

[kar-uht] / ˈkær ət /












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He was, as history now appears to attest, dangling a carrot that he would never allow you to have.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

For chicken soup, I roast thighs on a bed of onion, garlic, carrot and celery with big lemon slices, garlic powder, onion powder and plenty of black pepper.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

USA Today published a photo earlier this year of a sailor’s mostly empty lunch tray, which included a few chunks of boiled carrot and processed meat of an indeterminate nature.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I write fairly dark stuff, so it's actually lovely to go out in the morning and hand-feed the pygmy goats or the rabbits little bits of carrot and lettuce," James added.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Every time the gelding came near, Miss Love held out a piece of carrot.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"The most important thing is that the animals are comfortable," he said, "and well-fed" with plenty of apples and carrots.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Building on last week’s lesson, this soup starts in the oven, where carrots, sweet potatoes, scallions, miso, hot honey and a deliberately assertive amount of spice get deeply caramelized before ever meeting the stockpot.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

So as I slide four chicken nuggets on to my son's dinner plate - alongside his carrots and pasta - I'm not feeling the usual shame and panic.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Chief among the carrots is the promise of seemingly irresistible returns.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

In place of roses it was full of thick pole beans and hard green cabbages and strong carrots.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant


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