fruit
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But in the summer the village with its low houses surrounded by vegetable gardens and fruit trees becomes a tourist hotspot thanks to its long sandy beaches.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Real fruit juice concentrates give them their flavor, resulting in a less artificial taste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Shoppers can walk straight into the social supermarket, with no prior booking required, to access a wealth of budget-friendly groceries, including a £1 fruit and vegetable bag.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sergio, an artist in his own right, even constructed her first booth to resemble a fruit stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
She didn’t care if I ate cake for breakfast or fruit plucked from the orchard for dinner.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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In late September, the fruits of another U.S.-Taiwan partnership were on display in a live demonstration on Taiwan’s southeastern coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It said the shareholder return plan was designed to ensure that the "fruits of the company's growth translate into tangible benefits" for shareholders.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Restitution is rarely able to return all of someone’s lost money, but it is supposed to prevent the fraudster from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
He said weather and global warming also affected many products the business brings in, such as tropical fruits, vanilla, cocoa, sugar cane.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
On July 30, he sent the fruits of his labors to Washington, who found the Hamilton draft “exceedingly just, & just such as ought to be inculcated.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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
"The newly decorated restaurant, Hoo's On First, the eatery of athletes, will hold its grand reopening on Sunday. Specialty of the day: fruited sea bass on purple waves."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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The orange blobs are mushroom-like "fruiting bodies" while the rest of the fungus is underground.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
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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