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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
Then I come back home to Miss Trotter with a basketful of eggs, and as she inspects each dozen, hoping for a had egg to fuss about, she tells her side.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
There were two basketfuls of charcoal and at least half another scattered over the floor.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
I caught many basketfuls of sai-sai and put them out in the sun.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
“I will get the shells, that I will gladly, as many basketfuls as you may want; only tell me when I bring them if there are not enough, and I will get more.”
From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene
Moreover, as regards legal claim to soil, leasehold, freehold, or copyhold, why, simply none, the earth having been carried up to that precarious place in arduous basketfuls.
From Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee
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