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Recent Examples of breadbasket
Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of breadbaskets.
More than one-third of the world’s wheat and barley exports come from Ukraine and Russia, for example.
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Umair Irfan, Wired News, 28 June 2025
That includes modern breadbaskets that now enjoy some of the world’s best growing conditions such as the US, and subsistence farming communities that rely on small harvests of cassava.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 21 June 2025
The Capital Grille is offering a two course Mother's Day brunch that includes blueberry breadbasket for the table.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2025
Groundwater extraction played an outsize role in this achievement and transformed the dry North China Plain into the country’s breadbasket.
—Gabriel Collins, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2022
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Umair Irfan, Wired News, 28 June 2025
That includes modern breadbaskets that now enjoy some of the world’s best growing conditions such as the US, and subsistence farming communities that rely on small harvests of cassava.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 21 June 2025
The Capital Grille is offering a two course Mother's Day brunch that includes blueberry breadbasket for the table.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 11 May 2025
Groundwater extraction played an outsize role in this achievement and transformed the dry North China Plain into the country’s breadbasket.
—Gabriel Collins, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breadbasket
Noun
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The cause was classified as norovirus, a contagious virus that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and is commonly known as the stomach flu.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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Adair, still in handcuffs, is then picked up from the wheelchair by several deputies and placed on his stomach on the bottom bunk in his cell, the KBI said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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When Ford was 2 years old, he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and had a tumor the size of a tennis ball in his abdomen, according to his dad.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
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Painful bloat set into my upper abdomen.—
Jessie Rosen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For two years, the 33-year-old sewing operator didn’t have enough money to fill her family’s bellies and fend off the debt collectors at the same time.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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But beware of this alien’s feisty side when tapping his nose or belly twice.—
Pamela Brill,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Breadbasket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breadbasket. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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