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berry

[ber-ee] / ˈbɛr i /


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Higher berry intake was linked to slower increases in ventricular volume.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Instead of planting berry bushes out in the open, as is often done in the U.S., it decided to grow them in greenhouses using water systems that couldn’t be contaminated by nearby farms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

All of this emotion is baked into “Travelin’ Thru” with the love and care of a Dolly Parton berry pie.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

The single star was painted in berry juice, as was the bear, which looked so porcine that Mexicans who were struggling to protect California from Yankee rogues mocked it as more pig than bear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“And a lemon is not a berry, Mr. Lemoncello,” Marjory muttered.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

For other fruit, such as berries, you might only have a few days.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Researchers at King's College London found that urolithin A, which is produced in the body after eating foods including pomegranates, walnuts and some berries, can help the heart relax more effectively.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Most traditional foodstuffs, such as nuts or zereshk -- small red berries used in Persian cuisine -- remain available, however.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

We shared stories with a gooseberry-pie baker, whose mother had trimmed the berries, much as my mother had in her last years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

There’s chamomile, but there are also flavors like chestnut, forest berries and rose hips, peppermint mocha, white peach, spiced citrus, black strawberry….

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The floral arrangements used “English foliage — holly, berried ivy and red skimmia,” and the tree was to be recycled to be viewed by holiday visitors to Windsor.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2022

In fall, masses of winter pansies, ornamental kale and berried shrubs replace tender plantings in the massive window box and containers, while the trim boxwood hedges and clipped hollies carry the show throughout winter.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

If the "berried" or female lobster bearing eggs, and the young and immature, were let alone by the fishermen there would be no necessity for a resort to artificial lobster culture.

From The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 by John N. (John Nathan) Cobb

The kissing bunch of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs. Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.

From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

She moved the jar of arbutus into place again; picked out a spray, dark-leafed, berried with scarlet and orange, tried it against the dull serge of her frock.

From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m beginning to think she’s gone fishing or berrying and will not return until dusk.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Of course, I’m not going to follow her, although it would be easier than playing On the Track, the game we made up when went berrying or food gathering.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Joe and Marly did so much berrying, what with strawberries and then red raspberries and then blackberries, that Joe said he was absolutely berried-out.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

They go berrying to their hearts’ content, too.

From Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade


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