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Kocaeli is an industrial port town about 100 kilometers east of Istanbul surrounded by a checkerboard of tobacco and sugar beet fields, petrochemical plants, and paper mills.
—Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
The sugar beet is a root crop, which is sliced and processed down into sugar cane and molasses.
—Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
Sugar More than 1 billion pounds of sugar is produced across Michigan’s nearly 900 sugar beet farms.
—Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
While Ouai cites the active ingredients in the gloss as hyaluronic acid, sugar beets, panthenol, and rice water, cosmetic chemist Ginger King explained to Allure that the force behind the formula is a combination of silicones.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
But what looks great from America’s sugar beet fields seems far less positive in the nation’s grocery aisles.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2023
To have so many deaths in that season is unusual, and is largely to do with changes in pesticide use accompanying a shift to rapeseed farming from buckwheat and sugar beet, said Alexey Nikolenko, a bee researcher at the Bashkortostan branch of the Russian Academy of Science.
—Ilya Khrennikov, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2020
The Snake River has formed the border of Oregon and Idaho for more than a century and a half, slicing through fields of onions, sugar beets and wheat that roll out for miles through Treasure Valley.
—Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
Officials in Warren, Minn., partly surrounded by sugar beet fields, had to physically lower the pump at the town’s well by 63 feet in order to keep providing drinking water to more than 1,500 residents, including those in a hospital and nursing home.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1817, in the meaning defined above
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“Sugar beet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sugar%20beet. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
sugar beet
noun
: a white-rooted beet grown for the sugar in its roots
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