grapevine

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Recent Examples of grapevine Exotic locusts present a serious threat to U.S. agriculture due to them feeding on a variety of plants, including crops like grapevines, citrus trees, deciduous orchard trees, and vegetables, Customs and Border Protection officials said. Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 16 July 2025 The region now routinely hits the 180-day threshold needed to ripen vinifera vines (the type of grapevine that produces 90 percent of the world’s wine). Alexandra Gillespie, AFAR Media, 23 June 2025 Where her grandfather’s grapevines and orange trees once flourished, tomatoes, wheat and beans now thrive, tended by Hawkins and her 4-year-old son Zayne, who delights in stuffing his mouth with strawberries and elderberries until his face is stained magenta. Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 1 July 2025 Cherry trees, grapevines and quince trees were also planted at the site, which is near a structure known as the House of the Garden of Hercules. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for grapevine
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Noun
  • The mission: save earth’s most precious energy source, butterflies, from an evil AI bot.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Spirit Halloween serves as a source for Halloween costumes, as well as indoor and outdoor home decorations – a pursuit more Americans have been swept up in.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Some critics have praised it as heartfelt and funny in outlets like Entertainment Weekly.
    Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In doing so, the outlet said Shein hopes to persuade authorities in Beijing to approve its bid for a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO).
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the context of romance, decision fatigue arises when the seemingly convenient abundance of avenues for finding a partner start to, ironically, backfire.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There are plenty of avenues Mitzi’s pregnancy can take, and Sylvia is thrilled that her portrayer, Kaia Gerber, will get more of a chance to shine this season.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The complaints say some Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes contain seats that would typically contain windows, but lack them because of the placement of air conditioning ducts, electrical conduits or other components.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The complaints say some Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes contain seats that would normally contain windows, but lack them because of the placement of air conditioning ducts, electrical conduits or other components.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For the the Lynx system replaced by Scout vans, buses will stop running routes on Jan. 10.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Go the safer route with easy heatless curlers like this affordable set from Kitsch.
    Jackie Cucco, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But there's one part of Silverstone's origin that the actress isn't sentimental about.
    Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
  • According to Variety, the project covering O’Connor’s origin story is being helmed by Irish production company ie: entertainment, which executive produced and worked with the singer on the 2022 O’Connor documentary Nothing Compares; O’Connor died in July 2023 at age 56 of natural causes.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Williams Companies The natural gas and oil pipeline company is firing on all cylinders, according to Wells Fargo.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Orchestration: Layers must accommodate schema evolution, rollback and modular pipelines.
    Abhik Sengupta, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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