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mushroom

[muhsh-room, -room] / ˈmʌʃ rum, -rʊm /


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These approaches could eventually offer mushroom growers additional tools for controlling bacterial blotch while reducing their reliance on conventional chemical treatments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The findings could ultimately help make mushroom farming more resilient, productive and environmentally sustainable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Warner Bros. is a top operator and yet has been passed around like a dented can of mushroom soup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

This is also when I deploy what I lovingly think of as my potions and powders: anchovy, tomato paste, miso, soy sauce, fish sauce, bouillon paste or cubes, mushroom and brown gravy powder.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Wildflowers grew in the fallen houses; where the corpses of goblin families had fallen, there were mushroom clumps.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Adding to the difficulty, visible symptoms sometimes develop only after mushrooms have been shipped to grocery stores or purchased by consumers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

"We hope that expanding our research will lead to the development of better diagnostics and more effective treatments to address the full group of disease-causing bacteria in white button mushrooms," she said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Some species benefit from extra dead plant material left by drought, while others respond to stress in trees by producing more mushrooms.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Porcini mushrooms, also known as penny buns or ceps, had been "a bit thin on the ground", he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“How do you know, anyway? What your mushrooms are good for?”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

That all changed as the Premier League's global appeal mushroomed.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Since last fall, when Kakaiya began selling the model, clinician interest has mushroomed.

From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026

Complaints have mushroomed for months about World Cup ticket price fluctuations caused by sophisticated algorithms that can dramatically increase costs based on demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

His Mango brand quickly mushroomed across Spain and has become one of the world's leading fashion groups, with about 2,850 stores worldwide.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

There were camphor trees and teaks and African cedars and red stinkwood trees, and here and there a dark green cloud of leaves mushroomed above the forest canopy.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Turba Labs’ platform could help make more supply available to meet mushrooming demand for the compute necessary to run AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

New data centres -- warehouse-like facilities that store online files and power AI tools from chatbots to image generators -- are mushrooming worldwide, and the sector is growing particularly fast in Asia.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

Drug deductibles—the amount you pay up front before coverage kicks in—are mushrooming for many.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Moreover, the rule addressed a marketing process that is destined to keep mushrooming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov


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