palm
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My grandmother positions a chair in front of the windows of our sunroom, which look out onto the neighboring hills dotted with bungalows, Tuscan pines and tall palm trees.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Vegetable-oil prices instead fell 4.6%—the first monthly decline since the beginning of the year—dragged by lower palm and soybean oil prices, which outweighed gains in rapeseed and sunflower oils.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Photos showed one of the seized Madagascar cockroaches was almost big enough to completely cover the palm of an adult hand.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
More than 100,000 illegal exotic cockroaches - some as big as the palm of a hand - have been seized by Australian authorities from a commercial breeder in New South Wales.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The palm nuts looked so different stripped of their fibrous orange coat, but there was goodness still left inside them.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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