carrot
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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
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"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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