sprout
Example Sentences
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Potato flatbread with spruce sprout pesto and pickled white currant.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
"Some branches would die off, and others would sprout up," he said.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
Once they sprout, its tall and graceful characteristics are very conspicuous and catch people’s eye, said David Campbell, an expert on mushroom consumption or a mycophagist.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026
Only much later would I realize that it wasn’t so much a smorgasbord of vendors as it was the Gorgon Medusa: When one head is removed, more sprout in its place.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026
Along the way, perhaps, they noticed that seeds thrown in the garbage one year would sprout spontaneously in the next.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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