lime
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One TikTok video was just 15 seconds long and showed a lime FaceTiming a lemon on a MacBook.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
"Not only were oysters harvested for food from the earliest days of colonization, but the reefs themselves were dredged and the shells crushed and burned to make lime for cement and mortar," she says.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
He crossed the border illegally sometime before he turned 20, making the migrant’s journey north from the avocado and lime orchards that surround his family’s small town in the state of Michoacán.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Special dishwasher salt, meanwhile, helps to "soften the water preventing lime scale build up and those horrid white marks on glasses."
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
Before the free relay, Ruth brought Lindsey and me plates of lime and orange Jell-O cut with a star-shaped cookie cutter.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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