sugar cubes

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For a more autumnal spin, I tuck in about ½ cup of cubed, softened butternut squash, a sprinkle of brown sugar, cubes of manchego, and a few torn sage leaves.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

These three-family clapboard sugar cubes, thrown up by the tens of thousands around the turn of the 20th century across all New England’s cities, are the backbone of Greater Boston’s working-class housing stock.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2025

Deadly jellyfish, tiny and iridescent, like sugar cubes.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

The main trunk’s glacier surface “is so messed up by crevasses it looks like a set of sugar cubes almost. There’s no place to land a plane,” NSF’s Cutler said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

The Howards motored down and watched, too, feeding sugar cubes to their horses and surely wondering what they had gotten themselves into.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand