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The many financial companies that are using AI to their advantage are another basketful of potential bargains.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
That's all to say when you spot fresh morels at the farmers market, don’t hesitate — grab a basketful, cook them simply and savor the fleeting magic of their season.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
She runs her fingers though a basketful of small white beans called “perla del suelo” — pearl of the ground — adorned with vein-like lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
“In the next 3 to 5 years, we will have a basketful of antiaging molecules,” Yadav predicts.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2023
We picked them up by the basketful until they filled my mind’s eye so completely I knew I would see them in my sleep.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Men heap basketfuls of human knowledge and spiritual endeavor onto a smoking fire, while in the background classical columns, arches and pediments define the surrounding architecture as distinctly of the Renaissance.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
I caught many basketfuls of sai-sai and put them out in the sun.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
There were two basketfuls of charcoal and at least half another scattered over the floor.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
And her reckless giving away of interest and of loving-kindness, enabled her, not merely to feed the multitude, but to carry home miraculous basketfuls, and more, methinks, than twelve.
From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee
The factor has a grand garden, and that would account for such basketfuls o’ flowers.”
From The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
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