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fruit

[froot] / frut /
NOUN
edible part of vegetative growth developed after flowering
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Much of the food, including fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy products, is distributed to charities and community groups.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Navatek later sent Clyburn a fruit basket from Edible Arrangements for $102.60.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Ansari suggests taking creatine with yogurt or in fruit smoothies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Fruit “I’m not hungry when I wake up, but I usually eat some fruit when I arrive at CBS Mornings before I go on the air.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Then I’d awaken the girls and we’d eat breakfast together—usually fruit, cereal, toast, and maybe homemade applesauce.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

In late September, the fruits of another U.S.-Taiwan partnership were on display in a live demonstration on Taiwan’s southeastern coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It said the shareholder return plan was designed to ensure that the "fruits of the company's growth translate into tangible benefits" for shareholders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

We would need those fruits to sustain us.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

The orange blobs are mushroom-like "fruiting bodies" while the rest of the fungus is underground.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

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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