grapes
Britishnoun
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That is forcing vineyard owners from Bordeaux to Australia to rip up vines and leave grapes to rot in the fields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Chavez engineered a 1968 boycott of California grapes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
There’s a refrigerator case with to-go items, including a turkey sandwich, roasted cauliflower bowl, chef salad and a snack box with cheese, salami, grapes and walnuts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Here, the grapes that tangled themselves around corner-bar trellises all summer fall frozen to the sidewalk, shattering softly underfoot.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
He flung the grapes down and want on.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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