palm oil
noun
: an edible fat obtained from the flesh of the fruit of several palms and used especially in soap and lubricating greases
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The Forest 500 tracks firms linked to beef, soy, palm oil, timber, cocoa, coffee, leather, and rubber—commodities responsible for over two-thirds of global deforestation.
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Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Made with only two ingredients: Dry roasted peanuts, and palm oil.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The process of erasure is driven by the biofeedback data produced by a living palm oil tree that took center stage in the installation, its condition determining the volume of water and the speed and direction of the brush.
—Naima Morelli, Artforum, 1 May 2025
Then, in the early 1970s and the decades after, many forests were logged and then cleared for palm oil plantations, until more than one-fifth of the total area of Sabah was planted with oil palms, according to a 2022 study published in the journal Land Use Policy.
—Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
Made with only two ingredients: Dry roasted peanuts, and palm oil.
—Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
The process of erasure is driven by the biofeedback data produced by a living palm oil tree that took center stage in the installation, its condition determining the volume of water and the speed and direction of the brush.
—Naima Morelli, Artforum, 1 May 2025
Then, in the early 1970s and the decades after, many forests were logged and then cleared for palm oil plantations, until more than one-fifth of the total area of Sabah was planted with oil palms, according to a 2022 study published in the journal Land Use Policy.
—Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Palm oil.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palm%20oil. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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