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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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The company’s efforts to differentiate its products further are starting to bear fruit, executives said on the call.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

What we saw onscreen, along with the catchy music she made, was, in her telling, the fruit of a creative yield achieved by pressing beyond her breaking point.

From Salon Aug. 19, 2026

For instance, robots that last year could not pick up fruit now do so -- an important breakthrough as "we have a big need for agricultural applications", he said.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

Labour said the government's efforts to work with European countries to tackle small boat crossings were "bearing fruit".

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Nestled in a valley of lakes and meadows, surrounded by fruit orchards, the cottage was simple, but it was the only place I ever felt truly free, and that was thanks to Babci.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Part of the scarab family, the beetle has an apt name: they munch on soft-skinned fruits such as figs and grapes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

The diet emphasizes fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, nuts, and olive oil — and limiting foods like red meat, cheese and sugar.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

"Don't you dare think the Australian fruits and ours are the same. Ignorance is pathetic," said one social media comment.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Eating recommended amounts of whole fruits and vegetables has been associated with a lower risk of chronic disease and better long-term health.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

“We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth,” Kennedy told the world.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Over the 250 years since America’s birth, there have been amber waves of great comic material, veritable fruited plains of satirical fodder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The explanation for their propinquity lies not in the creation of some whiz-bang, life-changing, paradigm-bending consumer product, or the shining virtues or particularly fertile minds that grace Silicon Valley’s fruited plain.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 26, 2025

Observing that peaches in the Carolinas germinated easily and fruited heavily, English explorer and naturalist John Lawson wrote in 1700 that "they make our Land a Wilderness of Peach-Trees."

From Salon Jun. 8, 2023

Home to Lincoln Beer Company, patrons can sip on the brewery’s “perfectly pineapple” fruited wheat pints within sight of the building’s towers, reaching nobly into the Southern California skies.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2023

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

A fully realized edible garden, complete with raised beds and fruiting trees, enhances the property’s sense of abundance and connection to nature.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

His photography focuses on the fruiting bodies of the slime mould, where the colour and drama are most intense, and from where spores are released.

From BBC Dec. 29, 2025

At Taï, where chimps more often eat fruit that has fallen, the team similarly gathered undamaged and unbitten fruits from the ground below fruiting trees.

From Science Daily Dec. 1, 2025

To enable robots to navigate fields and harvest efficiently, many farms would need to plant fruiting walls—apple trees that have been trained to grow in dense canopies against flat vertical surfaces.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 2025

A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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