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jellybean

[jel-ee-been] / ˈdʒɛl iˌbin /


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A Tic Tac or jellybean, for example, does not have enough water and too few air bubbles to allow it to expand.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

Marsupials give birth to embryonic or premature babies — called joeys — that are roughly the size of a jellybean, according to the zoo.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2023

Among other things, he takes $10 donations to play Bean Boozled, a favorite of his younger viewers, in which he eats a mystery jellybean that could taste like either chocolate or dog food.

From Seattle Times Jul. 22, 2021

A creature the size of a jellybean spun through the air, delicate legs wiggling, reddish-brown body catching the light.

From Nature Oct. 17, 2017

What if every time he strongly condemns a hate crime, he gets a jellybean?

From Slate Feb. 22, 2017

Someone filled Conor Daly’s portable hot tub with Orbeez, superabsorbent polymers that resemble jellybeans and grow to 100 times their original size when submerged in water.

From Seattle Times May 26, 2022

For years, it was permanently stocked with jellybeans and Mountain Dew and smelled of too many people working too hard for too long.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2022

We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in order to cast a ballot.

From Washington Times Jul. 30, 2020

Reading it is a bit like eating a bag of assorted, subtly flavored jellybeans.

From Slate May 27, 2015

I says what else do you expect except every dam drummer and cheap show that comes to town because even these town jellybeans give her the go-by now.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner




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