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For dieters, dessert becomes a forbidden fruit.
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Tanned bodies queued up cheek to cheek for the ATM, or examined bins of bio cucumbers and cantaloupe, their own forbidden fruit hovering inches away.
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Eviana Hartman, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023
Was an apple really the 'forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden?
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2022
Today both models cost about the same, averaging around $48,000, but prices continue to climb; a few years ago a great-condition R32 cost less than $30K. R34s, which will hit the magic 25-year mark in 2024, largely remain forbidden fruit.
—Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2020
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Eviana Hartman, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023
Was an apple really the 'forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden?
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2022
Today both models cost about the same, averaging around $48,000, but prices continue to climb; a few years ago a great-condition R32 cost less than $30K. R34s, which will hit the magic 25-year mark in 2024, largely remain forbidden fruit.
—Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 10 Nov. 2020
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“Forbidden fruit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forbidden%20fruit. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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