vegetarians

noun

plural of vegetarian
as in vegans

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Recent Examples of vegetarians That included looking at everything from the average cost of groceries for vegetarians and vegans, the number of restaurants with vegetarian and vegan offerings, and for the vegetarian lifestyle, the availability of vegan and vegetarian festivals. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
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  1. vegans
  2. animals
  3. herbivores
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  • That included looking at everything from the average cost of groceries for vegetarians and vegans, the number of restaurants with vegetarian and vegan offerings, and for the vegetarian lifestyle, the availability of vegan and vegetarian festivals.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
Definition of vegans
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  • If a landscape is truly untouched by humans, then natural forces—plants, animals, wind, water, lightning—should be able to account for everything that happens there.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Mourners gathered Sunday outside the home where the shooting unfolded, leaving candles, flowers and stuffed animals.
    — Eric Mack, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of animals
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  • Mastodons were massive, elephant-like herbivores that went extinct roughly 11,700 years ago, near the end of the last Ice Age.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The same process occurs in the radish’s spicier cousins, and the resulting chemicals are thought to help deter herbivores and pests.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of herbivores

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