grapevine

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Recent Examples of grapevine Just like the aging of a fine wine, the domestication of grapevines throughout Italy was a pretty slow process. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025 At the time, WFB was still a hot property and the industry grapevine guesstimated Sam’s advance at $500,000, an arrestingly high number for a writer who had never written a big-selling book. Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 13 May 2025 The food, by Kyiv chef Kateryna Tkachuk, is both deeply regional and softly modern: rabbit skewers grilled over grapevines; subtly-spiced tomatoes that even now, writing this, make my mouth water; a creme brûlée packed with varenyk. Lela London, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 Photo : Elite Auctions The grapevines produce 12 different varietals. Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grapevine
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Noun
  • Open source robotics with a strong community focus Everything about the BHL robot is open source.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • Democracy in Action has kept the source of its funding secret.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • According to the outlet, the story follows Nick and Naomi, a couple who have fallen out of love and try to each convince the other to call off the wedding by means of sabotage and emotional manipulation.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 1 July 2025
  • According to the outlet, the surfer had previously seen sharks at the beach and had even witnessed other people sustain shark bites.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Despite various avenues of communication and the increasingly digital process of creating denim, a gap persists between designers and the people executing their designs.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 1 July 2025
  • The Hornets can still offer either the non-taxpayer mid-level exception of $14.1 million per season or the bi-annual of $5.6 million, providing them with another avenue to mine the free agent market.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • One hole was for the electric box for the 120-volt outlet, and the other hole was for a one-gang electric box the conduit that would house the fiber optic cable.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
  • Take Letters to Wendy’s, which tells its story via a year’s worth of customer comment cards, all submitted by an unnamed narrator who treats the fast-food space as a conduit for existential riffing.
    Dan Leach July 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Should the Red Sox go that route to add the righty, Alex Cora could be looking at a legitimate (hypothetical) postseason rotation built to contend in October.
    Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean the club would avoid going that route if the player fits.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • In the eight years since Miller rose to fame and became an outsized antagonist on the American left, his Santa Monica villain origin story has been exhaustively documented, picked over and reanalyzed.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • Gunn has no interest in easing you into this new world with an origin story or exposition dump.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The goal is to break the school-to-prison pipeline by addressing behaviors like fighting that can lead to suspensions or expulsions.
    La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 11 July 2025
  • Build greater pipeline predictability through systems.
    Jason Bahnak, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025

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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.

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