grapevine

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Recent Examples of grapevine Young grapevines should only have 10 to 15 buds left. Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 31 Jan. 2025 Cir Oasis 22-Inch Valentine’s Day Front Door Wreath Another floral option, this wreath features silk peonies, berries, greenery, and satin bows tucked into grapevines. Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Jan. 2025 Fruit trees, blueberry bushes and grapevines also need annual pruning, and February/March is the time to do that. Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 31 Jan. 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 See All Example Sentences for grapevine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grapevine
Noun
  • Creating a carbon copy of the original could attract criticism for being lazy and superfluous whereas straying too far from the source material could alienate fans.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Staff members at the U.S. Institute of Peace were informed they were terminated effective immediately on Friday, five sources familiar with the situation told CBS News.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The change is a tacit acknowledgment of the growing tensions between the association — which represents White House correspondents from dozens of news outlets — and President Donald Trump.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Videos that one outlet said were shot by a person in Ruili showed building debris littering a street and a person being wheeled in a stretcher toward an ambulance.
    Time, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Trump's ambitions aren't far-fetched, according to an international relations expert who told ABC News that there are some avenues in which the U.S. could realistically acquire the autonomous Danish territory.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • For Sriram, this new venture represents another avenue for creative exploration rather than a pivot away from his other work.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Case’s peristaltic robot lays the conduit while traveling, reducing the overall installation time.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Any device that can surf the internet can be a conduit for phishing attacks.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • People were ordered to evacuate on foot along a single route to the Mawasi area.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Volunteers — friends, family and other runners — support us along the route.
    George B. Sánchez-Tello, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While Jubilee struck a more uplifting tone compared to past albums, For Melancholy Brunettes returns to some of the band’s moodier origins.
    Chris Malone Mendez, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Regardless of its origins, this international trade standoff has left American restaurants in the crosshairs.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Additionally, multi-cultural marketing is as essential as actively recruiting from HBCUs to diversify the talent pipeline and consumer base.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The economy needs them, so the lack of an adequate domestic pipeline seems puzzling.
    Moshe Y. Vardi, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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