sorghum

as in corn
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental a once-popular children's book that today's tots would likely regard as tiresome sorghum

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Recent Examples of sorghum The country also added 15% tariffs on chicken, wheat, corn, and cotton, and 10% on sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef, seafood, fruits, vegetables, and dairy that start March 10, 2025. Erik Sherman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 His elevators are full of milo – also known as sorghum – and if it’s not sold and there’s a bumper crop of wheat coming in this summer, the co-op may have to get creative with its storage, Barnes says. Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025 Millions of dollars in grain have been sitting unused in Kansas, where farmers export sorghum, wheat, rice and lentils. Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 20 Feb. 2025 Italy produced 40,000 hectares of grain sorghum in 2023, as well as 25,000 hectares of feed sorghum, according to Sorghum ID. Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sorghum

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“Sorghum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorghum. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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