jellybean
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Origin of jellybean
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A Tic Tac or jellybean, for example, does not have enough water and too few air bubbles to allow it to expand.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025
Marsupials give birth to embryonic or premature babies — called joeys — that are roughly the size of a jellybean, according to the zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023
Among other things, he takes $10 donations to play Bean Boozled, a favorite of his younger viewers, in which he eats a mystery jellybean that could taste like either chocolate or dog food.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
The VRA successfully abolished what she called “first-generation” barriers to ballot access, like literacy and jellybean tests.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2021
A creature the size of a jellybean spun through the air, delicate legs wiggling, reddish-brown body catching the light.
From Nature ● Oct. 17, 2017
The nickname stuck — Bryant also liked to eat jellybeans — and he became a star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
Someone filled Conor Daly’s portable hot tub with Orbeez, superabsorbent polymers that resemble jellybeans and grow to 100 times their original size when submerged in water.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2022
The confounding process of determining an LFO amount “has all the certainty of counting jellybeans in a jar,” dissenting judges blistered in response to the Eleventh Circuit Court’s opinion.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2020
We may no longer have to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar in order to cast a ballot.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
“You keep off the streets, or I’d see you. Who do you play out with? Are you hiding out in the woods with one of those dam slick-headed jellybeans? Is that where you go?”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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