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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
The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe’s positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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
In Batchian, according to Wallace, they suspend themselves chiefly from the branches of dead trees, where they are easily caught or knocked down by sticks, the natives carrying them home in basketfuls.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
A few basketfuls would afford subsistence to all the party for a day or more.
From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by William Henry Giles Kingston
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