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a sweet food made from cacao beans
She gave me a box of chocolates for my birthday.
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Recent Examples of chocolate
Lauren Schuster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 June 2026
Blue Bell ice cream flavors Year-round Blue Bell flavors include vanilla, cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip.
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Natassia Paloma,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
Sales of non-chocolate candy have been growing much faster than those of chocolate in recent years.
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Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Family classes for children ages 9 to 15 require an accompanying adult and cover topics like French cuisine and pastries, while a separate kids-only class for ages 6 to 12 currently focuses on chocolate treats.
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Lauren Schuster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 June 2026
Blue Bell ice cream flavors Year-round Blue Bell flavors include vanilla, cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip.
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Natassia Paloma,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Adjective
Other cost-cutting measures include offering a smaller hot chocolate size, advertising non-chocolate ice cream toppings and moving to a cheaper location in Raleigh to save on rent.
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Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
Sales of non-chocolate candy have been growing much faster than those of chocolate in recent years.
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Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chocolate
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As in, pair their red blend with a candy charcuterie board.
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Grape Swedish Fish While the classic red Swedish Fish are still around today, many '90s candy lovers still miss the grape version.
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And even better, since Galveston is a popular Texas beach town with 32 miles of sandy shores.
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The shore now alternated between open sandy or rocky beaches and jumbled boulders ranging from a foot to many feet in diameter.
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Polley and cinematographer Luc Montpellier shoot the story in a muted palette, not quite sepia but not quite color either, reflecting the limited world of its characters.
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The harsh, desaturated look of Luc Montpellier’s cinematography — not quite black-and-white, not quite sepia — establishes an ambiance of persistent, disorienting unreality.
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Before the rookie makeovers, Courtni Shea had never colored her hair, which was originally an ashy brown color.
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Created with melanin-rich skin in mind, the sheer, moisturizing formula blends seamlessly into skin, leaving behind a healthy glow instead of an ashy residue.
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Always, always those little ashen faces.
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Hitchcock didn’t respond, his face slowly turning ashen.
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One who can tip the scales and slide white to gray and gray to felony.
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In fall, the panicles dry on the plant and can be a source of interest even in the gray winter.
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To diagnose this pathogen, cut an infected stem and look for grayish slime inside the stem.
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That revealed that some 21 of the 39 white-grayish bones in Stratum 10 and all 32 from the layer below had been burned.
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Deep meadows lush with vibrant prairie bluebells, gushing water, and resplendent valleys snuggled between giant, slate grey walls top off this classic adventure.
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“Chocolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chocolate. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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