grapevine

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Recent Examples of grapevine Here, grapevines twist on the limestone slopes below—feeding crisp Malvasia poured at terrace cafés. Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 Fennell explained that grapevine canes, the woody stems that support grape clusters, are an abundant, cellulose-rich material, and are available in the large quantities each year after harvest. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025 The 10-acre site includes rooms, tunnels, and grottos where citrus trees and grapevines grow underground. Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2025 States with hardwood trees, roses, hops, grapevines and stone fruits like peaches, plums and cherries should be concerned with the bugs. Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for grapevine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grapevine
Noun
  • Some workers, whose programs have alternative funding sources, continue to be paid on time.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps, even more than ever before, because there are so many other outlets and ways people consume news today.
    Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Sesko’s presence up front served to provide a genuine outlet, with Mbeumo and Mount looking for flick-ons.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That approach opens up all sorts of new avenues to diverge from the historical record.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Less than 10 miles down the road, 3,500-acre DeSoto State Park offers even more avenues for sightseeing.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Only the means, the conduits of misinformation, and the overall enshittification have changed.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Gilmour’s set—simultaneously a gesture to Fascist architecture, a conduit to nowhere, and a scatological joke—shores up the production in several ways.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The new truck routes and restrictions are the result of study, coordination and collaboration between city officials, local residents, area small business owners and trucking companies, city officials said.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This left kids, seniors and people from nonwhite, working-class communities with few alternative routes.
    Menika Dirkson, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The rates are based on shipping zones, which are organized from one to nine, with one being the closest and nine being the furthest from the shipping origin.
    Michelle Del Rey, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The origins of coffee can be traced to Ethiopia, as far back as the 9th century.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 2023, American High launched a digital comedy ecosystem, creating short-form content for social media with a batch of young comedic actors that the company can then funnel through its film production pipeline.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
  • He's trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Groundlings, two comedy schools known for being SNL pipelines.
    Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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