fruit
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For Aston Martin, though, this was confirmation that changes they have made to their car in recent races have borne fruit.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
At a local farmers-market stand, the pristine regional fruit was pricier than a few months ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
I turned perhaps $50 worth of produce into dried fruit, jam and an apricot pie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"To produce fruit, plants need sunlight," said Gabriel Olawuyi, a graduate research assistant at North Carolina State University and lead author of a paper on Plant Armor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
We got to work cutting up the fruit in the kitchen.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Restitution is rarely able to return all of someone’s lost money, but it is supposed to prevent the fraudster from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Higher diesel prices were already pressuring prices for groceries — especially perishables that are trucked to stores, such as fresh fruits and vegetables.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
People working for AI companies are so busy and unfocused on traditional markers of wealth, many have yet to fully embrace the fruits of that labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"So, I believe that if we get to a situation in which there's no place to sell my fruits in Europe, we'll find other markets."
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
There are some fruits and leaves that they can eat out in the forest, but we have to provide most of their food—three times a day.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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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
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
"Purple fruited makes more sense. How about grapes or plums?"
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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According to Olawuyi, that extra warmth helped covered plants reach the fruiting stage earlier than plants grown without the textile.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 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
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
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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