spud
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PepsiCo decided the brand needed to reclaim its roots in the spud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Cantwell is right to defend the spud against this line of attack.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
But the case, like so many others, fell by the flesh of the spud.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Baked, boiled, roasted or chipped, the humble spud is a dinner staple.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Dennis had the craving, so he did, for a nice sheep’s head with a bit of cabbage and a spud so up with me to Barry the butcher with the last few shillings I had.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
With spuds a staple on our dinner tables, this is the time of year when early potatoes usually get planted.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
His Halloween videos, with kids gleefully grabbing the spuds, have garnered hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
As for “Chicken Shop Date,” the online series first began with Dimoldenberg interviewing grime artists over greasy chicken and deep fried spuds before doing the same with Hollywood celebrities.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2024
First, you’d remove the spuds from their plastic bag.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 17, 2023
The back-and-forth of the emerald ring was enough to put one in mind of the children’s game called hot potato, which has nothing to do with cooked spuds or even warm globes.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The first horizontal well in the Bakken was spudded by Meridian Oil in 1987, long before the current boom.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2013
Meanwhile, we’re drilling and just spudded on December 31st, the Lineham Creek well you see onshore Louisiana there.
From Forbes ● Feb. 21, 2012
The country's first commercial oil well was spudded in nearby Moonie.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2011
Cuba, which spudded in its first oil well in 1954 and is now a small producer, brought up enough oil this year to supply its own needs for about two weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
After luncheon, Bluebell wandered away in search of wild flowers, the children hunted for cray-fish, Miss Prosody spudded up ferns, and Mrs. Rolleston drew from her pocket her favourite point-lace.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hugh used to trot about with him, spudding up weeds from the lawn.
From Hugh Memoirs of a Brother by Arthur Christopher Benson
