sweet
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Then choose from these options: original, brief, sweet, chill and sassy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Here, grated yellow summer squash and onion spend the better part of an hour over low heat, slowly becoming soft, sweet and jammy.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Really, what writer, no matter how detached from their past, could resist that kind of sweet talk?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
A sippable sweet treat: Refreshers—a nebulous class of drinks similar to lemonade or smoothies—are taking over menus from Starbucks to McDonald’s.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Soon, the trees thinned and the nauseating, sweet scent of Deadwood Dump filled the air.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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A loud cheer went up and huge celebrations erupted with the protesters singing, dancing, shouting slogans and handing out sweets.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Each mountain trek will be powered by noodles and Albie-Junior's favourite sour sweets.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Catherine, meanwhile, had run to seed and spent as much time as possible lying in bed eating sweets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Americans are shifting from traditional sweets, with chocolate’s snack consumption share down 2.6 percentage points since 2010.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
In the savannahs and forests they inhabited, high-calorie sweets were extremely rare and food in general was in short supply.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Thinking of it that way makes life sweeter, too.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
It would be even sweeter to play alongside his brother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
"For exports we prefer the NMK-01 variety because it has better shelf life, thicker skin, more pulp, and a sweeter taste compared to others," he says.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The closed-end fund, Pershing Square USA, could raise $5 billion to $10 billion, and Ackman already has lined up $2.8 billion from a group of investors, who will get a sweeter deal than public buyers.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Maybe Joanna was a bad girl but certainly she kept her baby sweeter and daintier than these good women kept theirs.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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It might be the sweetest thing I’ve ever tasted—and was the only drink I couldn’t finish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Wearing a light pink dress and a warm smile, “she looked like everyone’s sweetest grandmother,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Now the 74-year-old club legend walks away - if indeed he does walk away - with a Premiership and Scottish Cup double which will go down as one of their sweetest, given the circumstances.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Not long ago, Cinnabon was ready to capitalize on what should have been reality TV star Taylor Frankie Paul’s sweetest season.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
“In the theater, it’s the star of the show who takes the final bow. And it’s the last bite of cake that’s the sweetest, don’t you think?”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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