as in sludge
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental a story about a lost puppy that was pure corn

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Recent Examples of corn The basket is full of corn, red bell peppers, broccoli, and much more—all signs that spring has sprung and summer veggies are ready for the picking. Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 29 May 2025 View Recipe This pasta starring summer corn achieves its savory, creamy sauce thanks to one special ingredient: buttermilk powder. Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 May 2025 Taiwan is the No. 2 importer of Illinois corn and No. 3 importer of Illinois soybeans. Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025 Family-friendly activities include arts and crafts, video games, physical movement activities, interactive spray paint murals, corn hole and hop-scotch, all along the South Dock. Saleema Syed, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for corn
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  • Reichardt’s previous films, such as her retro Westerns Meek’s Cutoff and First Cow, have tended towards sludge and shadows, but her competition closer opens with the golden leaves of a New England fall, slightly faded to the paler golds of an Ektachrome postcard of the era.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 May 2025
  • Add the bark powder, which turns into DMT-laden sludge.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
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  • The farmers used to grow fonio, millet, and sorghum, but the French imported leftover broken rice from Indochina as the grain that Senegalese would eat, so that the farmers would not grow other grains.
    Osayi Endolyn, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2025
  • China also suspended imports of sorghum, poultry and bonemeal and placed 27 U.S. companies on a trade restriction list while also launching an antimonopoly investigation into DuPont China Group Co., according to The Associated Press.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Corn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corn. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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