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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
Stick to starchy, bland options like crackers, bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast, Dowler says.
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Sarah Klein, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Fresh aromas of applesauce, white pears, tangerines.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Families are asked to bring chips, a dessert, fruit or applesauce pouches to share.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Substitute butter with things like healthy oils, bananas, or applesauce.
—Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Klein, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Fresh aromas of applesauce, white pears, tangerines.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Families are asked to bring chips, a dessert, fruit or applesauce pouches to share.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025
Substitute butter with things like healthy oils, bananas, or applesauce.
—Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2025
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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Vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, kale and asparagus are also included in most low-carb diets—as are eggs, cheese, Greek yogurt and nuts like walnuts, peanuts, macadamia nuts and pistachios.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2025
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In the first images of Read since her second trial, Fox News Digital exclusively captured the 45-year-old wheeling a garbage bin outside her Boston hotel.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
21 June 2025
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Seal garbage tightly in bags, and rinse out bottles and cans before placing in recycling bins.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
18 June 2025
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All of this exploring and staying open and slow-burn nonsense left us with half the villa coupled up but stagnant — unwilling to stray but unwilling to grow — and the other half hopelessly single.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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Despite the great Roger Ebert’s own glowing review, many of his contemporaries couldn’t all see of its greatness, with many dismissing it as nonsense or mere shock entertainment.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
Noun
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Start with the dragon and its bizarre dog-like face, exaggerated fangs and dripping drool.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 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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The [Terry] Rozier trade turned out to be kind of blah ...—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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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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North Korea has responded to previous balloon campaigns with fiery rhetoric and other shows of anger, and last year the country launched its own balloons across the border, dumping rubbish on various South Korean sites, including the presidential compound.—
Hyung-Jin Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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They were were found beneath a pile of rubbish heaped just inside her front door, according to a police report released Wednesday.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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At one point, she is seen securing herself behind a gate inside what appears to be a partitioned bunk or enclosure.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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Due to a lack of air conditioning and the overwhelming smell of the sitting urine in the showers, the bunks were more or less unusable, meaning the majority of the Triumph's 4,000 passengers were forced to lug their mattresses onto the deck of the ship and sleep outside.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
25 June 2025
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Located in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard and Ivar Avenue, the celebrated jazz institution is rolling out a roster of A-list artists in jazz and other genres.—
Steve Baltin,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Rios plans to major in jazz studies and earn teaching credentials at San Diego State University, and aspires to have a professional music career.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 June 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applesauce. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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