plum

Choose whatever farmers market flavor is calling to you—apricot, sour cherry, blackberry and red plum would all be excellent this time of year.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

I wanted a little nod to Hawaii with the pineapple because that’s where we also get salted plum culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Reynolds was reshuffled to chief whip and Jones ended up with the plum role of Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

Turner, who had been running the cable programming division of Time Warner, was unhappy at being sidelined from a significant role after the merger, as AOL took the plum positions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

They taste like plum and lemon peel and salt.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

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

Eating blueberries, plums, blackberries, broad beans and cherries, washed down with green tea, is an ideal way to top them up, they say.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Michael Thurlow, whose family grows peaches, nectarines and plums in California’s San Joaquin Valley, has been a longtime supplier of D’Fresh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

A salt-forward cheese like feta lends bright sharpness that plays beautifully with soft, sweet components like wine-poached pears or candied plums.

From Salon ● May 24, 2025

Her skin was purple, gray, cold, the color of those plums.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Pillow Block, Plummer Block, or Pedestal.—The ordinary form of plummer block is represented in fig.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan

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 Rose, Joshua

First, set the beams level, and shift in or out the motion shaft plummer blocks or bearings, until the piston rod is upright.

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

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

The plummer block for receiving the thrust of the shaft is shown in fig.

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

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