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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
all that talk about taking up the farming life was just a lot of spoiled applesauce
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Recent Examples of applesauce
No special skills are necessary in this straightforward recipe, in which a combination of applesauce and apple cider makes for a cake that’s moist and delicious.
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Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
Earlier this year, the FDA recalled 3 million cinnamon applesauce pouches that contained extremely high levels of lead, after dozens of children across the United States were found to be suffering from lead poisoning.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
Eat small, bland snacks: Crackers, toast, bananas, rice, and applesauce—known as the BRAT diet—are great choices.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
Serve with applesauce, cranberry sauce, sour cream or gravy, if desired.
Makes about 10 pancakes.
—Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
Earlier this year, the FDA recalled 3 million cinnamon applesauce pouches that contained extremely high levels of lead, after dozens of children across the United States were found to be suffering from lead poisoning.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
Eat small, bland snacks: Crackers, toast, bananas, rice, and applesauce—known as the BRAT diet—are great choices.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 16 Oct. 2024
Serve with applesauce, cranberry sauce, sour cream or gravy, if desired.
Makes about 10 pancakes.
—Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for applesauce
Noun
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In Dolton, residents can’t even be sure their garbage will be collected.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2025
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During another sale, an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was placed in a garbage bag and sold in the middle of the afternoon in the Bronx.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2025
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The word had seemed like nonsense only a moment before.—
Anna Russell,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Having a terrible job where empty, pandering nonsense is handed down by corporate headquarters.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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Nate Burleson to haters of NFL's promo clip featuring Taylor Swift: 'Wipe the drool off your tank top' Burleson didn't hold back while addressing the critics who decried seeing Swift in an NFL hype video.—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
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The quick clip shows an angry and feral Xenomorph with dark sharp teeth and lips dripping with drool.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2024
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
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Lighting Lighting is the jewelry of any room, so take down those blah builder grade fixtures and replace them with something magical.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2024
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On the evening of January 14, a woman was arrested after allegedly setting multiple piles of rubbish and trash on fire, Jim McDonnell, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference last week.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Combine principles with experience Anyone can send out glib; motivational rubbish based on principles.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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He’s had pepper spray pumped into his cell and lived in solitary confinement for days at a time during an endless shuffle between hospital beds and jail bunks.—
Kallie Cox,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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Accommodations range from bunks in communal rooms to private yurts overlooking the Pacific.—
Megan Michelson,
Outside Online,
13 Jan. 2025
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The sounds of grunts, punches and a little soft jazz ran through the speaker system.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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The author also aligns this mode of performance poetry with other Black art forms such as jazz.—
David Silverberg,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applesauce. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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