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Recent Examples of sorrel
Instructor and researcher Mila Berhane was encouraging local farmers to try planting Hibiscus sabdariffa (also known as Jamaica sorrel), a subtropical native African species that’s long been grown throughout Asia and the Americas but is still gaining traction in the U.S.
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Maggie Heyn Richardson, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
Fall is a good time to plant perennials like garlic and sorrel.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2025
Diners might discover new ingredients like Laotian coriander or French sorrel while supporting sustainable, socially responsible agriculture.
—Karthika Gupta, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
The Michelin Guide highlighted the lobster roll made with spiny lobster tartare, a creamy clam dish and the sorrel ice cream, which is decorated with edible leaves and flavored with makrut lime and pomegranate.
—Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
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Antelope such as puku, reedbuck, and roan began to return in greater numbers.—
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In 2019, just 19 roan antelopes were estimated to exist in Kenya, according to conservation experts.—
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Like any Boise kid, William Goodman grew up knowing landmarks such as the rearing palomino above the Ranch Club in Garden City.—
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Ed the golden palomino (voiced by Western film actor Allan Lane) belonged to Wilbur Post (Alan Young), a young architect who decides to moves out of the city and closer to nature.—
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These wooden party places grace the bay, with stilts planted in the bottom.—
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Asher's wife had told the Coast Guard that her husband did not typicaly wear a life vest while out on the bay, where his boat was found, and also could not swim.—
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Ariana Grande stunned in a dramatic black Vivienne Westwood Couture ball gown that featured draping velvet straps tied in bows at the shoulders.—
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Grab it in olive green, creamy white, or classic black.—
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Use two cans of beans—cannellini are recommended, but any other mild variety, such as kidney, pinto, or navy, will work well.—
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Before your next pot of pintos, learn if a common cooking ingredient could reduce gas.—
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The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.—
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Meanwhile, Navajo baby carriers are built from a Ponderosa pine frame laced with buckskin straps.—
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The race welcomed para-athletes, and trotters with strollers were also invited to take part.—
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His sweetbreads in pig trotter ragu evoke his memories of eating pork knuckle at his grandmother’s house.—
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“Sorrel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorrel. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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