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lime

[lahym] / laɪm /






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Descendants of Michael P. Hannin, who acquired the quarry in 1931, applied for vested rights in 2018, saying they had long intended to mine and process the lime deposits there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

There are also around 16 fruit trees on the property—including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, and lime trees—as well as a brick-enclosed vegetable garden.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

“That have complex flavor profiles, that are not just juice and a splash of soda or a lime or something.”

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Lemon-lime soda 7UP tweaked its formula and packaging to put the lime first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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

Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Wearing black Swig shirts, the crew swiftly mixed drinks with bobbing limes and swirling cream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

She shows me ripening limes and lemons inside her allotment greenhouse.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

A lot of citrus, like limes, pomelos, lemons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

Johnny filled the pockets of his jacket and breeches with limes.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The previous owners — an army general and his wife, a journalist — paneled the main room in rustic limed wood with scalloped trim.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

Indeed, of the 180 or so tombs that his team examined at the cemetery, this was the only one that had been limed.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Lightness and informality were crucial to achieving the desired open-arms effect, so the living room’s dusky paneling was stripped and limed to give it an earthier blanched appearance.

From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 8, 2015

Against one wall was a pile of limed and salted hides, still covered in hair.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2012

The land is limed only at long intervals, as daffodils like a soil rather on the acid side.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association

In effect, the liming enhances the way the ocean naturally removes CO2, says Harald Mumma, an environmental engineering graduate student at Notre Dame.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2022

The carbonates and oxides in the ash are valuable liming agents that can raise pH and help neutralize acidic soils.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

They survived foul trouble; Melo Trimble fouled out with 1:03 remaining, and Robert Carter Jr. and Diamond Stone each finished with four fouls, liming them to 22 minutes apiece.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2016

But, he added, “As long as we are talking about liming starts now and not in the regular season I’m fine with it.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 20, 2015

In this he was warmly supported by T. P. Littlepage and more recently by growers in Northern Ohio; but lately liming has not been found beneficial in Italy.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association


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