vegetable
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When she arrives at their imposing Vermont mansion to go through Verity’s notes, Lowen discovers that Verity’s a vegetable: completely physically and mentally indisposed after a car accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
There are also around 16 fruit trees on the property—including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, and lime trees—as well as a brick-enclosed vegetable garden.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
A large root vegetable related to beetroot, sugar beet and chard.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
On Sundays, Fumo often prepares a big portion of ground beef or chicken, using it to piece together dinner throughout the week, with rice or potatoes and a vegetable side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He was thinking that if only he could get the Bloodbottler to take one bite of the repulsive vegetable, the sheer foulness of its flavour would send him bellowing out of the cave.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
With the activities and plentiful food such as fresh fish, tempeh and lightly blanched vegetables, the experience felt more like a vacation than my time in Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Frozen meals have come a long way from the blanched vegetables and rubbery, puck-shaped meat approximations found in TV dinners of the 1970s and 80s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The user is shown devoting her free time to chopping vegetables for said party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
This works beautifully with fresh vegetables, but frozen vegetables are welcome, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
I discreetly checked my seat for sharp metal objects, then the inside of my desk for chewed bubble gum, worms, or rotting vegetables.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
