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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

Instead, I lean forward to inhale the scent of rotting fruit for a long moment before wrapping the scarf back around my pet pineapple.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

"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

Many fresh fruits and vegetables can carry cyclospora, and it is likely that there are multiple sources of the outbreak, Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Whole fruits included apples, oranges, bananas, mangos, grapes, pears, melons, strawberries and peaches.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

She cared for fruits and orchards and that was all she cared for.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

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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