plum
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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
When Susie pitched it to me, I didn’t even realize how perfect it was: A prunus vase is usually what they put plum blossoms in, and meiping means beautiful plum vase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Mrs. Kuen puckered up her lips like she’d just tasted a sour plum.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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On those rented 50 acres, Mora grows three varieties of plums, as well as peaches and nectarines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 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
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
Sitting on the deck, I put my nose to the glass and breathed in aromas of light peat, ripe plums, shortbread and, floating in on the breeze, sea air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The green light shone strangely against the purple plums of Ser Parmen's surcoat, and gave a sickly hue to the sunflowers that covered every inch of Ser Emmon's enameled yellow plate.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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 David Allan Low
The plummer was hear twice yisterday and the cutworms is awfle.
From The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Martin Field
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
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
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
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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