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lime

[lahym] / laɪm /






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The lime mountaineering boots worn by an Indian climber who died in 1996 have been a grim trail marker for many climbers on their way up the world's highest peak ever since.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Items like honey chicken and cilantro lime sauce proved to be popular.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Inspired by traditional Indian cooking and Southeast Asian flavors, this Food52 recipe bathes and simmers sautéed heads of romaine in a delicious mixture of gingery coconut milk, fresh lime juice and fish sauce.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

On her drive back, Starling plans to fill up the back of her car with coolers, and “I’ll get like three frozen Key lime pies to bring with me home.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

It tastes like sweetened lime juice and goes down smoothly.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

She started with limes, lemons and six flavor shots.

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

They brought back sugar, rum, molasses, limes, cocoa, and ginger.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

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

On the grey horizon yonder, is the limed bronze Statue of Mary the Virgin, rising on its sable pedestal, and looking, from this distance, like a candle in a bronze candle-stick.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

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

In Trinidad and Tobago, liming refers to being social for its own sake, and this festival will have a lounge dedicated to just that, where little visitors can relax and play games.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2019

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

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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