honey
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Instead, Blythe chose honey over vinegar and launched a lobbying effort to convince state legislators and the governor that the town needed some kind of economic rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
This year’s new “premium chai” recipe reflects the chain’s fresh focus on customization, using just two grams of honey to give customers more control over sweetness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But Kyla says she personally loves the ones which play on the lyrics "baby" and "honey" by using dolls and real honey as props.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Plus, Canadian honey producers are feeling the sting; this week’s earnings lineup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
So, yes, sure, we sold some honey and vegetables and sweaters, but that didn’t cover the cost of things.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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This countertop infusion machine manages every step — drying, decarboxylation, infusion — so you can turn out oils, butters, honeys, and more with reliable results.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
Jams, jellies and honeys make perfect pairings for much of what’s on offer.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
For breakfast, he requires a selection of six honeys and a special mix of muesli, and to end a meal, a plate of local cheese.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023
Vendors are hawking flower crowns, drinking horns, herbal tea blends and artisanal wildflower honeys while the pop-up taverns declaring “COLD DRYNKS” attend to parched wayfarers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
There were plants, flowers, fruits, leaves, roots, nuts, beans, honeys, gums, bark, seeds, bees and a few kinds of insects.
From The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
They burst into action with an explosion of pyrotechnics and fireworks with Hooligan, which showcased their trademark blend of honeyed harmonies and crisp rap verses.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Roasted fruit welcomes herbs: rosemary with grapes, thyme with honeyed peaches, basil with strawberries.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
Cool dawn in a bowl, Soft clouds swirl with honeyed light— Morning blooms in white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
And not just catchy phrases: The “nameless” attracts thousands of followers on Instagram with honeyed images and all the proper wellness hashtags.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
And he could still hear Hizdahr, urging his queen to try the honeyed locusts.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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Russian Journey is his most interesting book to date and offers a penetrating glimpse of the enigmatic bear which is currently bent on retracting its claws and honeying up the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I’d always felt that way, too, till he come honeying round me this spring.
From Captain Pott's Minister by Francis L. (Francis Le Roy) Cooper
But honeying at the whisper of a lord: And one the Master, as a rogue in grain, Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.'
From Aspects of Modern Oxford by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
So she set briskly about her task, honeying Eugene the while, for she was confident that this above all things was the thing he needed.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
Ay, but the young colt winced and whinnied and flung up her heels; and then the King came honeying about her, and this Becket, her father's friend, like enough staved us from her.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Within hours Columbia Artists' Vice-President William Judd was on the transatlantic phone with honied words.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And I, listening, Found not the salt of the whispers of my girl, Murmur of confused colors, as we lay near sleep; Little wise words and little witty words, Wanton as water, honied with eagerness.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Courage gives honied sweetness to our food And prison fare, and makes e’en death seem good.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
The fat of the fields husks the voice of the morn, while Demeter is weighing her sheaves; The lotus has honied its lips for the kiss, "and the turtle in mockery grieves."
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Hiram Hoyt Richmond
Appealing to their congregations, they have worked with honied phrase and flattering carresses upon the tender imaginations of women until they have learned to look upon a slaveholder as a sort of moral monstrosity.
From History of American Abolitionism by F. G. de Fontaine