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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
all that talk about taking up the farming life was just a lot of spoiled applesauce
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Recent Examples of applesauce
The division played a key role in addressing lead contamination in applesauce pouches and in curbing the threat of lead in schools.
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Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2025
Add applesauce and Greek yogurt, mixing until well incorporated.
—Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Place the beans, maple syrup, peanut butter, applesauce, vanilla extract and baking powder in food processor and process until well combined.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
Thursday, April 17 * EASTER LUNCH, Ham Steak, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, whole grain roll, applesauce, milk.
—Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2025
Add applesauce and Greek yogurt, mixing until well incorporated.
—Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Place the beans, maple syrup, peanut butter, applesauce, vanilla extract and baking powder in food processor and process until well combined.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
Thursday, April 17 * EASTER LUNCH, Ham Steak, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, whole grain roll, applesauce, milk.
—Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for applesauce
Noun
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Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Any actor that’s been working for over three decades has a giant garbage bag filled of pilots.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
15 May 2025
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Bears are generally solitary, shy animals but are food-driven and often find easy meals in garbage bins.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2025
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Everyone will be there — except Lydia, who Joseph dispatches on a nonsense errand to D.C.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
6 May 2025
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The sequel has more glamour, more trouble and maybe a bit too much nonsense 1 Comments The first Simple Favor, from 2018, was a playful, shallow mystery most notable for casting the lovely, languid Blake Lively as a cynical, devious clothes horse named Emily Nelson.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Depp pushes over a cabinet with dishes, rips open her dress and makes a most unholy noise as her eyeballs go up in their sockets, tongue juts out and globs of drool pour from her mouth.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024
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Wipe the drool off your tank top, put some pants on, and get out your mama’s basement!—
Alex Perry,
The Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2024
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Living Better From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Why aim towards the ear?—
Andrea Muraskin,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There are 10 king bedrooms, five of which have sleeping lofts, two queen rooms, and one with bunks.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2025
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Designed to hold 40,000 inmates, including mass murderers and drug traffickers, prisoners are confined in large, windowless cages with minimal furnishings of tiered metal bunks, an open toilet, and a cement basin.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Not yet ready to give up on music, Golden dabbled in music journalism throughout the Seventies, writing for Rolling Stone and Creem, and took up residence singing jazz at Clifford’s Lounge on the Upper West Side.—
Jeff Gage,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2025
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Problem is, Chisholm himself knew nothing about jazz.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
19 May 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applesauce. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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