apricot

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Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

She gave me like a date, you know, and like a dried apricot, so I ate that.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

The apricot Cavapoo has not been seen since she slipped her collar after hearing a firework in October 2022.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025

Fruit purées can also be transformed into high-impact components: grilled peach with shoyu, roasted apricot with miso, fig with ponzu.

From Salon • May 16, 2025

Weeding, pruning an apricot tree, planting squash and zucchini seeds, picking veggies.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner