grapevine

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Recent Examples of grapevine 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 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 See All Example Sentences for grapevine
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Noun
  • That's part of the 'framework' agreement for TikTok, which will also include new and existing investors in its Chinese parent company ByteDance, sources told CNBC's David Faber.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As demand for electricity surged to power more electric devices in homes and Big Tech's boom in data centers, renewable energy has been the go-to source for the cheapest, fastest way to generate more juice.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Don't go into a basement, or any room, if water covers the electrical outlets or if cords are submerged.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Altus then mocked her for leaving the Wall Street Journal for a different outlet.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Westwood Northern Boulevard is expected to be closed for most of the morning between Wardell and Bourdinot avenues .
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Skanda Gautam Singh noted that legal avenues exist for victims' families.
    Sonal Nain, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Western States Petroleum Association has been warning California lawmakers since last year that dwindling Central Valley oil production risked shuttering pipelines such as the San Pablo Bay conduit.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • By February, Dudek had become the conduit between DOGE and the SSA, alerting top agency officials that DOGE wanted to work at headquarters.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to optimizing queries, Espresso routes queries between different compute clusters to maximize efficiency.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The location of the firearm appears to match the suspect's route of travel, the sources said.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The origins of Godzilla’s name may remain a mystery, but there are no secrets related to its film escapades.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Its origins trace back to the 19th century, when the mondine sang it—female laborers in Northern Italy's rice paddies—protesting brutal working conditions and lost youth.
    Amanda Castro Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The two firms are also considering building an oil pipeline and storage facility in Oman to help boost Iraq’s crude exports.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His capacity to oversee the resources pipeline across Microsoft platforms, RPA/robotics, and business analysts mirrors the operational maturity found among best-of-breed consulting companies.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Grapevine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grapevine. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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