orange
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She started by making simple shapes like a stuffed orange, pear and an eggplant, working her way up to the finalized baby gift: a stuffed whale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Almost 250 people died, while vineyards, orange groves and plots used to grow Albufera rice, an essential paella ingredient, were decimated.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
The late 1700s were a heyday of botanical exploration, and orange trees from China were exported en masse across Europe to families who wanted to show off their newfound wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The orange make-up could now be washed off with soap and water, the shoes were more comfortable and the chocolate river was no longer full of cigarette ends discarded by crew members.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I want that," Sam would say, pointing to orange juice and to chocolate milk.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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"It's unbearable. We can't open the windows, even the oranges in the garden and the laundry hanging out to dry are covered in black dust."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
More of the shorter blue wavelengths of light are scattered, allowing the yellows, oranges and reds to become more prominent.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Gone are the vivid blues and warm oranges and greens, crackling against film grain, that did so much heavy lifting for the first film’s leaden plot.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
At the Farmers Market, breakfast is maybe three oranges, two apples, a basket of strawberries, half a melon and two peaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The juice might have had oranges in it once, but only a faint citrus smell remained.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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