gumdrop
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gumdrops
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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
Another of her favorite creations: a gumdrop tree made from twigs and sweets.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
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
He watched Sam Gardiner bring out a can of coal oil for another customer and guard against the possibility of the oil’s splashing out by fixing a lump of gumdrop candy over the spout.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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
Jessie, wearing jeans and a baggy navy hoodie, was perched on the steps leading to the dungeon with a pile of colored gumdrops and wooden toothpicks in neat piles around her.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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