lime
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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
The lime converts arecoline into a free base form, which makes it easier for the body to absorb.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The signature JonnyPop is a rainbow stack of cherry, orange, lemon, lime, blue raspberry and grape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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
The next week, brick walls arose and windows appeared, and today there was a door—painted lime green!
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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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
I was addicted to reading the food scenes—the Christmas feast that the March girls bring to the Hummels, the illicit pickled limes Amy sucks on at school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Her only distraction from constant anxiety is the lush garden she tends to daily, with mangoes, nopales, limes and a variety of herbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
Pork Chop stared at the kids selling the limes.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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
He was quite a dandified youngster, with a red flower behind his ear and his hair limed in the latest fashion.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
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
But many of these poor pastures have been improved by draining, liming, and the use of suitable manures.
From Lessons on Soil by E. J. Russell
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