tangerine
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You can be blue or tangerine, red or black, claret and amber - everybody has some sort of skin in the game, some reason to be gripped.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
The elevated snack tray comes with crudités alongside a pesto yogurt sauce, a tuna tostada, a carpaccio hand roll, shrimp toast and a refreshing, fruity and herbaceous granita that comes in a hollowed-out tangerine rind.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024
In Johnson’s buoyant painting a dapper Harlem couple steps out for a stroll beneath a tangerine slice of a moon.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2024
For reference, I generally use the majority of zest scraped from one whole satsuma, which is about the size of a tangerine.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023
The tangerine was very sour, I had a sharp, bitter taste in my mouth, and I had only just noticed it.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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