fruit
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Altogether, the evidence challenges the idea that drinking citrus fruit juice is simply consuming sugar in a glass.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Albanese for his part qualified his comments, saying that the fruit "ended up being quite good".
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Retailers usually reject fruit and vegetables that don't meet strict guidelines on size, shape and colour.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, participants who included fruit juice or a smoothie also reported lower depression scores.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Just last week he’d ushered five souls into the Afterlife: two rabbits and an elk to Pleasure, an old songbird to Progress, and a fruit bat to Peace.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"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
You should enjoy the fruits of your labor, but it will take some planning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 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
Average workers have “no direct control over how the fruits of their labour are spent” until July 22, Molinari says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Heavy with glossy pink and white fruits, the coral tree branches swayed softly above her.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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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
European fruitcakes are more like the medieval fruited bread than the versions made in Great Britain and the United States.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
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
Jake looked down on purple waves for fruited sea.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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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
Taczanowskia waska closely resembles the fruiting body of fungi in the genus Gibellula, which grow on spiders.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Seasons no longer follow a pattern. Flowering, fruiting, and harvesting all shift every year because of climate change," says Singh, now 62.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
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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Plants (Botany) - Introduction
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