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Recent Examples of breadbasket
The Dera was founded in 1948 by the mystic Mastana Balochistani in the Haryana city of Sirsa, near the northern state’s borders with Punjab, India’s breadbasket, and the desert state of Rajasthan.
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
Mindanao was the Philippines’ breadbasket, and its land was rich in gold, copper, and other mineral treasures.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This stretch of the Great Hungarian Plain was once the nation’s breadbasket, a lush expanse of silt and soil regularly replenished by the flooding of the Danube and Tisza rivers.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Hokkaido has long been Japan’s breadbasket.
—Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2025
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Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
Mindanao was the Philippines’ breadbasket, and its land was rich in gold, copper, and other mineral treasures.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This stretch of the Great Hungarian Plain was once the nation’s breadbasket, a lush expanse of silt and soil regularly replenished by the flooding of the Danube and Tisza rivers.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Hokkaido has long been Japan’s breadbasket.
—Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breadbasket
Noun
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The pulses are designed to normalize the nerve messaging from the brain to the stomach to relieve symptoms of nausea and vomiting without side effects.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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The reaction is often rather stomach-turning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Noun
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The scorpion also seems to have had flaplike structures on its abdomen called lateral epimera.—
Shraddha Chakradhar,
CNN Money,
10 June 2026
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Jonathan Pettigrew, 41, was shot in the abdomen on a BX36 bus near White Plains Road and East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx on June 8, according to information provided by the New York Police Department to PEOPLE.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
Noun
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But Floyd carries himself with a certain dejection, and the belly helped.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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In addition to the pyramids and GEM, Cairo, snorkeling, swimming and sunbathing in the Red Sea, dining, culture (including belly-dancing), eco and adventure tourism, and spiritual travel like the Religious Complex and the Holy Family Trail, where Jesus and Mary walked, are among the possibilities.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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“Breadbasket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breadbasket. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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