piña
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"Drones scan thousands of hectares to accurately count individual crops, assess plant health, spot early signs of disease, and monitor the growth of the piña to predict the absolute perfect window for harvesting," Vadlamudi says.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The whirring piña colada machine tempted me, but at $15 a glass, it would quickly drain my budget.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
And every weekend they’d dine at Casa Gambino, a classic Mexican restaurant with vinyl booths, piña coladas and a bison head mounted on the wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Faux-Greek columns rise like they’re holding up the heavens; murals swirl across the ceiling in the color palette of a piña colada; the lighting is the same warm gold as melted butter.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no wonder they were in the mood for carnage when they reached the mortal world.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The piñas must get to a pressure cooker within 24 hours, where the sugars can be extracted.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Woolf is doing all this planting with hopes that someone else will build a commercial plant to cut, heat and extract juice from that many piñas, because none currently exists in California.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
They then load the piñas into a truck for roasting, which can take another week once the subterranean oven is constructed.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
In time, the piñas are tossed into baskets carried by mules, loaded onto trucks and driven to the factory.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
But you have bought those cambrics by the piece, and also piñas, thin, gossamer fabrics, of all degrees of color and beauty, sometimes with pattern flounces,—do you hear?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
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