beans 1 of 2

plural of bean
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beans

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bean

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of beans
Verb
Stir in broth, tomatoes, and beans. Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025 Vigilante imports much of its coffee from Brazil, and other beans come from countries including Indonesia, Ethiopia and Colombia. Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025 One day, the menu was beans and sausages, but she was only served two sausage links when others were given a few more. Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025 The beans are typically piled in wooden boxes or baskets, in which bacteria and fungi break down the beans’ pulpy coating, producing chemicals that generate flavor precursors within the beans. New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025 Harris-Pincus recommends selecting a single nutrition habit, such as meal prepping, or adding a half-cup of beans to your daily diet to boost protein intake. Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025 Legumes Legumes are a family of foods that include beans, peas, and lentils. Molly Burford, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2025 That means a 140-pound adult only needs about 53 grams of protein per day, an amount easily reached with a cup of Greek yogurt and a chicken breast, or a serving of tofu with beans. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025 Another is the Volcano Tostada, made with carne asada, chorizo, refried beans, queso Chihuahua, pickled onion, avocado salsa verde and salsa macha. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beans
Noun
  • Mir has more than 25 years of capital markets experience in energy infrastructure.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Aalo Atomics is also hoping to build a data center on the same site, using the energy generated by its SMR to power its operations.
    Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Don’t use mulch made from black walnut wood, leaves, or nuts near your orchard.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So in 2017, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases formally recommended parents introduce children under the age of 3 to allergens like nuts.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even for those in the North who didn’t care a damn for the four million held in brutal bondage, or those who wanted a soft, conciliatory approach, the war began to take on new and moral meaning.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At the start, the project required building a damn to drain the water from the facade.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nix had no juice early, with four straight incompletions to start, and Payton continued to struggle to find any flow as a play-caller for three quarters.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Remember when Tyreek Hill was drinking pickle juice during a 2020 Chiefs game?
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Stop Sales sent the raw chicken, cut cow foot and jerk sauce into the garbage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors said Hernandez choked Etan, stuffed his body into a plastic garbage bag hidden inside a box and took it out with the trash.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Miss Keaton…is not a whit like the flustered ingénue she was cast to play.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The whit and the whoo are from different owls.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While not explicitly mimicking their moves, from scuttling to pounces the choreography does have a vigor that drives friendly and fierce moves into the fantastic.
    Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Safdie shoots the table tennis sequences with breathtaking vigor, often capturing Chalamet dominating matches in long, single takes.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lisha speaks nonsense — or is that because she is concussed?
    Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Explaining exactly why this particular trend, like so many confounding memes and viral nonsense, will travel unbelievably far on the web, and elsewhere, is as easy as painting wind.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Beans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beans. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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