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Recent Examples of grapevine
Divided into three parts—Reading Vines, Reading Landscapes, and Reading Wines—the book explores wine from its roots in grapevine domestication to the complex interplay of terroir, culture, and taste.
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Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Now, after learning of their daughter's pregnancy through the grapevine, her parents have reached out, telling her that Luna isn't in the picture anymore.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Manchester’s grapevine is a strong one.
—Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025
Your officiant should definitely know, and the chance of someone hearing about it through the grapevine is fairly high.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
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Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Now, after learning of their daughter's pregnancy through the grapevine, her parents have reached out, telling her that Luna isn't in the picture anymore.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Manchester’s grapevine is a strong one.
—Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025
Your officiant should definitely know, and the chance of someone hearing about it through the grapevine is fairly high.
—Erin Clack, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grapevine
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Toward the end of his life, his longevity became a source of embarrassment.—
Oliver Whang,
New Yorker,
3 May 2025
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Axios initially reported on Saturday that the US, Israel and representatives of a new international foundation are close to an agreement on how to resume the delivery of aid, citing two anonymous Israeli and US sources The Israeli source who spoke to CNN would not say if a deal was imminent.—
Jennifer Hansler,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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But Trump and his aides are now actively trying to impede this reporting and intimidate news outlets, creating a bleak backdrop to the UN’s recognition of Saturday as World Press Freedom Day.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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Fake words creeping like kudzu into scientific papers and dating profiles and e-mails and text messages and news outlets and social feeds and job listings and job applications.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
3 May 2025
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Critics argue that his tenure has coincided with a deepening of the military’s dominance over Pakistan’s political landscape, limiting avenues for dissent and dialogue.—
Salman Masood,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Identifying young people at higher risk would open up new avenues for cancer prevention, monitoring, and treatment.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
1 May 2025
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Music is both the subject and mechanism of Sinners, which opens with a voiceover history of how some musicians, dating back to the West African griots, have been seen as conduits between this world and the one beyond.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
22 Apr. 2025
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Her group worked as a conduit between upset residents and the Corps, and as a result, Corps teams partnered with local arborists, reviewed marked trees, and corrected those wrongly identified.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 2025
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Originally Published: May 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM EDT Most Popular Most Popular Property of the week: Striking historic home along the Connecticut river Parking crunch looms at major CT airport amid route expansion.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2025
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Taking a bus or driving the 435-mile route is also an option.—
Kathleen Peddicord,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The dramedy from director Stephen Chbosky tells the true story of the origins of Enoteca Maria, the famed Italian restaurant on Staten Island.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
9 May 2025
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Di Placido has delved into the meaning of the Oscar-winning film Parasite and explained the origin of popular internet memes, such as the Sigma Male and the Backrooms.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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The parents told him that the stains started appearing shortly after the town built a communal water pipeline to a warm spring about 5 miles away.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
12 May 2025
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Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016) Brandon Beckett and Richard Miller team up again, this time to protect a gas pipeline from terrorists in the Republic of Georgia.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
10 May 2025
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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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