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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
Step through the red-brick facade any morning of the week for a coffee and a nosh—and don’t miss out on the latkes served with applesauce and sour cream or the matzo ball soup.
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Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
Pair with pork and applesauce or with roti de boeuf.
Naturalitis.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Eating bland, low-fiber foods like bananas, white rice, applesauce, and toast can help calm your digestive system.
—Julie Scott, Msn, Anp-Bc, Aocnp, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
This recipe contains peanut butter, maple syrup and applesauce to replace the traditional butter, sugar and eggs.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
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Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
Pair with pork and applesauce or with roti de boeuf.
Naturalitis.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Eating bland, low-fiber foods like bananas, white rice, applesauce, and toast can help calm your digestive system.
—Julie Scott, Msn, Anp-Bc, Aocnp, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
This recipe contains peanut butter, maple syrup and applesauce to replace the traditional butter, sugar and eggs.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for applesauce
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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Mountains of garbage are said to be visible from space and people have complained of seeing rats as big as cats in the refuse.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Apr. 2025
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With the parent club, Davison has been stuck behind Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Payton Pritchard on the backcourt depth chart, limiting him to 15 mostly garbage-time appearances this season.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Just ask anyone who's watched an AI confidently spit out nonsense—or worse.—
Bob Ras,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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While Drop, clocking in at an economical 93 minutes, may sound like fun and games, there’s something deeper and more human at its core than mindless nonsense.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
8 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
Noun
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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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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The site was first excavated beginning in 1995, and in 2018, scientists began collecting, analyzing and radiocarbon dating fossils unearthed from El Gigante rubbish piles.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The upper level holds the bar and lounge, four guest rooms (including a six-bed bunk room, earmarked for the client’s grandchildren), and a large outdoor entertaining space.—
Rachel Gallaher,
Robb Report,
23 Mar. 2025
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My favorite hut is Zealand, because the wood-burning stove keeps the bunks toasty on chilly nights.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The jazz band includes some of the top young players in the state, led by teen saxophone virtuoso Kahlil Childs, who won the Jazz Excellence Organization’s Young Artist Grant.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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Late at night, locals slip into unmarked jazz clubs and speakeasies where the cocktails are strong, and the music never stops.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applesauce. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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