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tomato

[tuh-mey-toh, -mah-] / təˈmeɪ toʊ, -ˈmɑ- /


NOUN
simple fruit
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The tomato farms are found in the Kimana area, which is part of a corridor between Amboseli National Park and the Tsavo National Park in the south of Kenya.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

It was almost Dodger game time, and if the gondolas were up and running, they’d be close enough overhead that you could hit one with a tomato.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

I grated a ripe tomato into a bowl, an operation I find disproportionately satisfying.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

You can find many salads without lettuce as a main ingredient on the site, such as this eggplant purée with tomato salad or this summer medley of melon, mozzarella and prosciutto.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

The tomato sauce was rich and creamy with leaves of fresh basil, not dried.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Keep foods like dried and canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, olive oil, and a variety of whole grains on hand so you always have something to cook with.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

"It could see that I had tomatoes out, some cucumbers and eggplants laid out on the floor," Yuriy said.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

I’ve served it with skirt steak, pork tenderloin, salmon, eggplant-driven pasta alla Norma and risotto made with fresh, ripe Jersey tomatoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

And after several weeks of 90-degree days, I had become devoted to grating tomatoes, an activity especially suited to weather in which chewing can seem like an unreasonable demand.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

This’ll probably be one of the last times we’ll have it for months— we’ve almost run out of the tomatoes we canned from last summer.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy




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