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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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PayPal on Tuesday said Lores’s strategy is beginning to bear fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

It left plenty of low-hanging fruit for me.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Now, it’s known for incredible lamb, cheese, wine and fruit inspired by the natural, high-quality, hard-working traditions of generations of Māori.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

An upgrade package introduced by McLaren this weekend, their first since Miami, is the fruit of work aimed at correcting course, and the first signs are positive.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

“So you’re saying I just have to climb the trees and shake the fruit so it falls down, and then bring it to you?”

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

"We hope this place will bear the fruits of a deeper return to faith, or at least help people deepen their faith," said the parish priest Marek Mrowczynski.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Within a few short weeks, an ongoing outbreak of Cyclospora, a foodborne parasite that can contaminate raw fruits and vegetables — and lead to several unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms — has fueled a nationwide panic.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

The fruits of Tahnoon’s push are visible in the form of a massive construction site on a sandy patch of land miles from central Abu Dhabi, where thousands of laborers are working day and night.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Instead, naturally occurring compounds that are also present in many fruits and vegetables appeared to have a stronger influence on NR4A1.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

“It has pictures of fruits on it—bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, pineapples, strawberries, and snozzberries....”

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

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

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

It’s that season where you’re outdoors and paying attention to the native landscape, to the blooming and the fruiting of everything.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 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

I couldn't make it now without money, however, as there is very little fruiting agriculture down here at this time.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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