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vanilla

[vuh-nil-uh, -nel-uh] / vəˈnɪl ə, -ˈnɛl ə /


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Dessert featured the two leaders and their fellow diners tucking into vanilla crémeux with sour cherry confit, with an accompanying ice cream "made with harvested White House honey".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Guests were shuttled to the Storm King Art Center, where we were greeted with Blank Street Coffee and lavender vanilla scoops from Laz’s Ice Cream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Baker's yeast can now generate vanilla flavoring from plant biomass.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

There was the helmet with a safe amount of padding and the padding-deprived helmet that may have been obtained with a vanilla sundae at Dairy Queen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Finn sniffed a sleeve, and there it was: Mom’s unique odor, a mix of vanilla and Spring Breeze laundry detergent, with maybe some cinnamon and grass stain lurking underneath.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Consumer Reports' trained testers recently tried 13 vanillas and 11 chocolates with varying amounts of fat.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2010

Superpremium makers and feeders might take butterfat for thought from a test of 28 vanillas run a couple of Sundays ago by the Washington Star.

From Time Magazine Archive




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