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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
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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
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Prosecutors allege Portillo’s body was found by police wrapped in garbage bags and clothes stuffed under a bed inside Coto-Navarro’s apartment.Nicole Acosta, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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The 55-year-old super’s body was found hidden under Navarro’s bed wrapped in clothing and two garbage bags, one covering his top half, the other covering his lower half.Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
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That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 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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In the city center and suburbs of Maputo, mountains of rubbish were piling up.Tavares Cebola, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Not this current rubbish that has been served up and charged at Michelin star rates.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Sycamore's true pièce de résistance, though, is its rear bunk room, which offers bed space for two while serving as a useful office space during daytime hours.New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025
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Photo : Molly Culver The primary bedroom Photo : Molly Culver There are six bedrooms, plus a couple of bunk rooms, each with a mix of antique and contemporary furnishings.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
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John Coltrane Eligible since: 1986 The Rock Hall last nominated a pure jazz artist when Miles Davis was inducted in 2006.Troy Smith, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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Louis Armstrong, the legendary jazz musician, had once served as King Zulu–in 1949.Javier Hasse, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applesauce. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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