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lime

[lahym] / laɪm /






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The lime converts arecoline into a free base form, which makes it easier for the body to absorb.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 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

Lunch is followed by afternoon tea, including Welsh cakes and bara brith, a Welsh bread, with raspberry lime jam and lemon curd.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Sometimes he would come in with a commissary officer looking for lime or nails or leather or all the hundreds of things armies need.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Pereira has continued to champion corn, recently making a Brazilian lemonade - which uses limes instead of lemons - and pairing it with corn milk.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

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 can’t cut lemons and limes reliably with a knife, let alone defend her life,” Madera said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2025

“Tell me all about it. Are limes the fashion now? It used to be pricking bits of rubber to make balls.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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 skins are washed until the dirt and salt are out; they are worked in paddle-wheels, if necessary, until soft; they are limed; unhaired; and bated, or puered.

From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett

But as CO2 continues to rise and geoengineering a climate solution grows more tempting, ocean liming has a key advantage over other geoengineering proposals, such as schemes to release sunlight-reflecting particles in the atmosphere.

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

I am not aware that either the Hawkins method or the Cooper coal liming process has yet received a trial from any Scotch gas engineer.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various




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