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language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
all that talk about taking up the farming life was just a lot of spoiled applesauce
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Recent Examples of applesauce
Eating bland, low-fiber foods like bananas, white rice, applesauce, and toast can help calm your digestive system.
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Julie Scott, Msn, Anp-Bc, Aocnp, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
This recipe contains peanut butter, maple syrup and applesauce to replace the traditional butter, sugar and eggs.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
This variety also holds its shape when cooked, unlike other varieties like McIntosh, which are better for making applesauce.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
All sorts of recipes call for mashed banana or even applesauce.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2025
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Julie Scott, Msn, Anp-Bc, Aocnp, Verywell Health, 11 Feb. 2025
This recipe contains peanut butter, maple syrup and applesauce to replace the traditional butter, sugar and eggs.
—Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
This variety also holds its shape when cooked, unlike other varieties like McIntosh, which are better for making applesauce.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
All sorts of recipes call for mashed banana or even applesauce.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for applesauce
Recent Examples of Synonyms for applesauce
Noun
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
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But the Dutton nephew is not hearing any of that nonsense.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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The 38-piece capsule captures the show’s sense of kooky nautical nonsense, the lovable yellow sponge’s face crocheted into a pipsqueak-sized tote bag, printed onto swim trunks, and plastered on slingback espadrilles.—
Violet Goldstone,
WWD,
20 Mar. 2025
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Sam apologized awkwardly, trying covertly to swipe beneath her chin, checking for drool and feeling like the world’s schlubiest schlub for struggling to tear her eyes from this stranger when the love of her life had dumped her an hour earlier.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Over time, drool evolved in the 19th century as a more specific term for saliva spilling or dripping from the mouth.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
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American Airlines is giving Midwesterners a new way to escape the winter blahs.—
Brandon Withrow,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2025
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The post-election blahs are endemic across the big three cable news outlets, but the viewership numbers of individual networks can drop farther when the candidate seen as their ideological opposite wins.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Dec. 2024
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The site was first excavated beginning in 1995, and in 2018, scientists began collecting, analyzing and radiocarbon dating fossils unearthed from El Gigante rubbish piles.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Three men stormed in with flashlights, going from bunk to bunk.—
Graydon Carter,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Photo : Dallas and Harris Photography The bunk room.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2025
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In addition to a visionary oeuvre melding jazz, electronica, hip-hop and beyond, Flying Lotus has been quietly building a film/TV career over the last decade.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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The show also features children’s activities and live jazz by the Pete Ellman Trio. Artists interested in participating can apply through May 16.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Applesauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/applesauce. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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