gumdrop
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Sprinkle in a bit of imagination and the hats can also be transformed into a cake, a cupcake and, yeah, even a gumdrop!
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023
Holiday decorations: Designers display greenery, macarons, antique Czech ornaments, gumdrop trees and more.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2022
“He’s an ideas man who’s never touched a machine. He just tumbles into the inventing room and says something like, ‘Oh, what about a gumdrop that makes children dream silly dreams?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
One seemed to want to take a gumdrop home, lifting it off the ice, but may have been talked out of it by his friends.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
“You might get a peppermint,” Matty went on, “or a gumdrop, or maybe something they call a sour ball.”
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
Plus: Does anyone really like nibbling desiccated gumdrops?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The 2022 ornament shows the north and south fronts of a gingerbread White House that is decorated with white piping, red-and-white candies, gumdrops and candy canes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Three months later, on a cold December day, we bought a tree together and decorated it with strands of popcorn and gumdrops.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022
There’s an expression about gumdrops — or “nice to have” hires — versus painkillers, who are employees that solve an acute problem, she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
The best one was when she’d balanced a small plastic bucket of gumdrops over the closet door so that when I opened it all the way, it fell on me.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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