tangerine
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New York had not even hosted an NBA finals game since Steve Jobs was hawking tangerine iMacs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
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
A custom metal hood by Practice Fabrication, powder-coated the color of a Pixie tangerine, adds a sense of fun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
The craft cocktails skew toward Southeast Asian themes and ingredients, from pandan to tangerine.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024
The breeze smelled familiar to Nok: sharp and bright, like a tangerine.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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To be clear: These athletes aren’t chowing on the yucky old sports gels we all know and hate, the ones that taste like tangerines and moldy baseball gloves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
“Today I ate chips, tangerines and this thing that looked like chili but without the meat - just beans,” the 12-year-old said after lunch on a Friday at I.S.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
The production of tangerines and mandarins also was forecast to be up, going from 480,000 boxes last season to an expected 500,000 boxes in the upcoming season.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Most of the water pumped from wells in the Central Valley supplies farms that produce a wide variety of crops, from almonds to tangerines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
We all gathered in a circle on the sideline to eat our tangerines.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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