fruit
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Emma adds to the fun by taking her kids fruit picking and also by letting them choose at the supermarket, then having tasty picnics in the garden.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
They are sticky and chewy, each bite of fruit managing to get stuck in between the tightest crevices of your teeth.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
When dealing with higher costs, fruit and vegetable farmers usually have to pass those increases along to their buyers and distributors, and those increases will show up in grocery stores almost right away, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
To make a bottle of elderflower liqueur go farther, add a splash or two to fruit desserts like strawberries or grilled stone fruit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
There are endless kinds, each one different depending on where it was drilled, the same way different fruits have different flavors and nutrients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Moldy, bruised and rotten fruits and vegetables should also be avoided.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
And sheer uncertainty abounds over how to handle raw fruits and veggies while this parasite crawls about.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Instead, they estimated exposure using previously published data on average pesticide residues found in food categories such as fruits, vegetables, and grains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Not only were men dying throughout the country, the flocks and herds and the fruits of the field were blasted as well.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
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
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
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
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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