greengrocer
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greengrocers
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From his fruit shop in Blaenau Gwent, greengrocer Stuart Lewis watches children walk past every morning, buying fast food on their way to school.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
By declining to endorse the mantra, Havel wrote, the greengrocer goes from “living within a lie” to “living within the truth.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
I’m momentarily reminded of the daughter of a British greengrocer, Margaret Thatcher, who, early in her political career, established her economic credentials by the simple expedient of knowing the price of butter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
He indicated his background was to blame for those comments, as a former greengrocer from Peckham working in an environment that was "jovial and crude".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
In the meantime, Father left to buy some vegetables from a nearby greengrocer for our dinner.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
In Australia, Chinese takeaways date back to the 1850s, when Chinese cookhouses and greengrocers provided for gold miners in remote parts of the country.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
"In a small shop like ours, I would prefer the masks to stay," says Matt Barbrook, who runs Little Gems, a greengrocers on Market Place.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
"Often on tour, we'd pull over to a greengrocers somewhere in the middle of some vale, buy some bread and cheese, and just pull off the highway and eat in a field," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2016
From Mexicans working in greengrocers to West African deliverymen to South Asian limo drivers, immigrants have chalked up a series of organizing victories.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2016
He was a passionate chef who put great store in the healthfulness of fresh ingredients from the Mieles’ vegetable garden or the greengrocers in Park Slope.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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