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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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But curbing Right to Buy could take a long time to bear fruit, says Prof Tunstall.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The company says it’s making targeted investments in driver acquisition, retention and reactivation in those regions, a strategy that it says has worked in the past and is starting to bear fruit this time around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

If you are the chef at your company, eat the fruit and update your résumé.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

One species potentially at risk was the Bulmer's fruit bat, the centre wrote.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The others continued past a living room where kids played video games, and a dining room where more kids ate from a banquet of fruit pies and piles of soft bread and a chocolate fountain.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Economists have long warned, however, that the fruits of that growth are not being evenly distributed, with high-income households disproportionately benefiting, and also propping up consumption-led growth.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Despite the additional fruits, the avocado and mango group did not experience significant changes in body weight or overall calorie intake.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Farmworkers – who harvested cotton, vegetables and fruits — organized and marched for roughly 400 miles from the Valley to Austin to demand fair wages and better working conditions.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Maeve Enright of Chaminade is seeing the fruits of her labor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Welcoming the little change of scenery, entire families would regularly snack and picnic in the hallways, leaving behind candied fruits and half-eaten tacos.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

Before long, most cuisines had some sort of fruited breads or cakes that were early versions of the modern fruitcake.

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

"Purple fruited makes more sense. How about grapes or plums?"

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

"It formed this enormous kind of white, coraloid fruiting body," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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

They lazed around the house munching berries they’d brought from a fruiting bush.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo


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