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Recent Examples of edible This onion is not just for fun since its bulbs and shoots (scallions) can also be consumed like those of another edible onion. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025 In hindsight, Yu’s mistake may not have been to leave Lily out of her crate, but rather fail to keep her occupied with some kind of long-lasting edible chew. Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025 Vandal Palma, takes an international approach to its menu, resulting in creative mixtures like a ceviche in a crisp, edible cone with coconut foam inspired by Thai and Peruvian flavors (€7). Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Exercises focused on how to find and purify water, fish and hunt for animals, forage for edible plants, find dry wood to build a fire and construct palm leaf-sapling lean-to shelters. Kit Bernardi, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for edible
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Adjective
  • America Healthy Again, the clean-eating, vaccine-skeptical movement that opposes corruption in the food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Nightmares and negative emotions during dreams were also more common among study participants who reported unhealthier eating patterns, Nielsen told Health.
    Kristen Fischer, Health, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Via a show kitchen, diners will be able to watch chefs prepare the tasting menu, inspired by a knotted garden, which is believed to always contain something green, in flower, or eatable.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The remaining trees are Adirondack crabapple trees, another fragrant tree that blooms white flowers bearing dime-sized apple-like fruit and autumn brilliance serviceberry or juneberry, which Desotelle said bears an eatable fruit that’s a cross between an apple and a blueberry.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2022

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“Edible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/edible. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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