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sweetener

[sweet-n-er] / ˈswit n ər /










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In February, Paramount offered Warner investors a sweetener, so-called “ticking fees,” to win the auction.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Sorbitol was consumed in the largest quantity of any individual sweetener, with an average daily intake of 64 mg/day.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Usually, I whisk whatever sweetener I have on hand directly into the custard: honey, maple syrup, brown sugar, white sugar, sometimes a combination.

From Salon May 25, 2026

But a near-endless number of possible customizations means that customers can bring their sugar intake far higher by adding pumps of syrup, cold foam, sweetener or other toppings.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

And as a sweetener, he was released from any obligation to keep up payments on Michelangelo’s part of the two outstanding dowries, since he had already more than paid his own share.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

AMD extended sweeteners to win big customers, including offering them warrants, or future shares, in the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Large-scale commodity crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans — which go into myriad processed foods as well as into sweeteners and animal feed — behave a little differently, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Each species was then exposed to 39 commercially used sweeteners, including both natural and artificial varieties.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

These findings suggest that some sweeteners are not simply inactive substances that pass through the digestive tract without interacting with the organisms living there.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

You might think that it has replaced other sweeteners in the American diet, but that isn’t so.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan




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