grapevine

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Recent Examples of grapevine With most of the region’s rain falling between November and April, soils with the ability to hold water through the growing season are the grapevines’ lifeblood. Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025 Young grapevines should only have 10 to 15 buds left. Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 31 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
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Noun
  • Constructed from Alexander Graham Bell’s simple tetrahedron cell, the Cygnet model consists of two equilateral paper triangles, connected and illuminated by a hidden light source.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Legendary is eyeing a 2026 production start, another source adds.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The outlet reports that one other international student at the college had their visa revoked.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The news outlet also said that Assistant District Attorney Daniel Daugherty noted the hearing was held Monday (April 7).
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While this outlook may seem bleak, there are avenues for women to achieve career success on their own terms.
    Liz Elting, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Leaders told staff to stop launching investigations that came from media reports, previously a common avenue for inquiries.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Belgium international is Villa’s chief build-up conduit and the one player who has started every league match this season and accrued the most minutes.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The trend among the elite to use self-care as a luxurious commodity rather than a conduit for genuine restoration turns self-care into a performance of power and a tool of exclusivity.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Amanda McPherson, 38, and Johnathon McPherson, 27, were caught when detectives discovered seemingly unrelated cases of fraud shared the same postal routes, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an April 17 news release.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These asteroids are a direct window into the building blocks of our solar system and the origins of life.
    Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The mystery is three-dimensional: The humongous number of parameters obscuring what the model can do; the open data, internet data, on which the model is based (as opposed to in-house, clean data); and the source, the origin of the model’s development.
    Gil Press, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Or succession pipelines still anchored in tenure over future skills.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Needham upgrades Boston Scientific to buy from hold Needham says the med tech manufacturer has a diverse pipeline.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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