granary
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Faria turned toward downtown, mentioning that business owners are trying to hang on but that the old granary by the railroad tracks closed not long ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
On Saturday, water reached warning levels and continued to rise on the Muling river in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, known as the nation's "great northern granary", the provincial hydrology office said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2023
UK’s sarnie: Cut granary bread into triangles and add coronation chicken and lettuce.
From BBC ● May 10, 2023
All she knows is that her stately home in Chellanam, which withstood the test of time for nearly a century, is corroding and her granary is empty.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
The granary where Pilar Ternera had read José Arcadio's future was tom down and another twice as large built so that there would never be a lack of food in the house.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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More broadly, the world is lucky that war broke out after several bountiful harvests filled granaries, says Joseph Glauber, research fellow emeritus at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
With warfare constant, palaces looked more like garrisons, but granaries and markets were full and lively.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Many of the region’s other mountain villages were abandoned, their granaries turned into tourist attractions or, in at least one case, a “Star Wars” filming location.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
European countries will consider providing temporary granaries to Ukraine, which faces a shortage of silos for new grain crop, Ukrainian agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2022
In the granaries were oats and wheat and barley, and barrels of coarse ground flour.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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