eaten
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They show up alongside burgers at cookouts, tucked next to sandwiches at beach delis, speared into Bloody Marys, eaten cold straight from the fridge after a day outside.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Bananas can still be eaten on their own or used in smoothies where flavanol intake is not the main goal.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
"We were chasing Spanish mackerel and had one eaten by a pack of six of them, four metres off the edge of the boat," he told AFP.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
And in “Zootopia 2,” incongruous animals live together with no threat of being eaten.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
He had, admittedly, eaten a few toes back when he’d been alive, but he was a fox, for heaven’s sake.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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