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pickle

[pik-uhl] / ˈpɪk əl /


VERB
preserve fruit or vegetable
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Taste before reaching for additional salt; the pickle juice may have already done the work.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

And at least one pickle pope blessing people with herbs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The erstwhile interim U.S. attorney, then, is in a pickle of his own making.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

He has written about a college course devoted to Taylor Swift, a pickle mascot that went missing and retail workers who said they were tortured by Mariah Carey’s Christmas song.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

As he stirred with his stick, muttering curses into his stained white beard, he was thrown into a hysterical passion by Francie asking for a pickle from the bottom of the vat.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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