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pumpkin

[puhmp-kin, puhng-kin] / ˈpʌmp kɪn, ˈpʌŋ kɪn /
NOUN
vegetable
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Some autumnal ale: It can be delightful when craft breweries churn out seasonally inspired flavors, but what happens when we start being served pumpkin beer in August, or Christmas beer before Halloween?

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Descript, a video-editing app, has an A.I. interface that is dressed as a bouncing pumpkin right now.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Or add all the ingredients from mom’s pumpkin pie recipe that someone, at some point, texted to you, to your shopping list.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Horticulture teacher Travis Gienger hauled his pumpkin from Minnesota to Half Moon Bay, California, for the annual pumpkin weighing event.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Her bright orange blouse was the color of a pumpkin, and Moss was certain that no one in the universe could pull it off except for her.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

With the biggest whoppers selling for upwards of £15 a piece, a fun family day out pushing wheelbarrows full of pumpkins can become costly, yet some attractions sell out quickly.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

It’s likely that pumpkins for pie fillings will cost more, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

As her success blossomed, Kusama’s fiberglass sculptures of flowers and pumpkins got bigger, her palette brightened and her installations became more kaleidoscopic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Meanwhile, my father and mother tended to their garden, cutting weeds from their patches of com, beans, sorghum, and pumpkins.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau


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