sugar

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A comparable process took place in Cuba after the Spanish-American War, when American sugar companies acquired 60% of rural properties across Cuba, reducing independent farmers—largely manumitted slaves and their descendants—to the level of low-wage labor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Abatti, 63, owns a large farming operation in the Imperial Valley, growing crops including sugar beets, alfalfa and melons.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Novo was hoping to achieve better weight loss and blood sugar control by combining drugs that work through different pathways.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Instead, finish the top with a scattering of turbinado sugar for crunch and a pinch of flaky salt for sparkle.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

I would have liked to avoid the general store—and seeing Rae Ellen again—but there was that sugar and those clothespins I’d promised to get.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney