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plum

[pluhm] / plʌm /


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Barbera d'Asti, "traditionally dominated by notes of cherry and plum, is increasingly evolving toward more concentrated aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant", Garberoglio said after a tasting.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

And their reward was a plum home tie against Mikel Arteta's men, who beat Ipswich Town 4-2 on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

We were back to “Succession,” in which the outsider, rather than one of the children, gets the plum job.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Franklin Graham, who has built his entire career piggybacking on the fame of his famous father, the late evangelist Billy Graham, was rewarded with a plum spot on Sunday’s roster.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

The color was called devil’s plum, a deep matte purple that I accented with tiny lavender rhinestones—just like the color of the journal Monday gave me for Christmas last year.

From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson

Products that will benefit include some types of Calvados and cider from Normandy, Crémant d'Alsace fizzy wine, lamb from Poitou-Charentes, and Reine-Claude plums.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Adding foods like blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans, and cherries to your daily diet, especially when paired with green tea, could be a simple way to support heart health, according to new research.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

Chamoy similarly comes from Asia through pickled plums, particularly China via the Philippines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

At the bar, I built a fantastic $59 meal from the happy-hour menu: hamachi crudo shingled with plums, chicken curry, and truffled brie grilled cheese with mango jam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

When my mother finished her shopping, she quietly plucked a small bag of plums from the rack and put it on the counter with the rest of the items.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Q.--What kind of plummer blocks are used for the paddle shaft bearings?

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

The eccentric for feathering the floats is fixed to the ship’s side, and sometimes carries a plummer block or pillow block for the paddle shaft bearing.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

A.--The trunnion plummer blocks are formed in the same manner as the crank shaft plummer blocks; the nuts are kept from turning back by means of a pinching screw passing through a stationary washer.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.

About 6 ft. of shafting is coupled on in line with the motor shaft, and an extra plummer block fixed at the end.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

An instrument by which the wheel-lock guns and pistols were wound up; also used to screw up the nuts of the plummer boxes.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

For women and not a few drag queens, Blanche is considered one of the plummest roles in all of show business, though its psychological complexities can prove debilitating.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

Now, Christie is the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, the plummest of plum speaking gigs and a testament to how quickly he has risen in the GOP firmament.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2012




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