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sugar beet
noun
: a white-rooted beet grown for the sugar in its roots
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Workers at the largest sugar beet processor in the U.S. have rejected a contract offer that includes a 17% pay increase over four years. 
From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 Ideal for dry, dull skin, this serum uses dihydroxyacetone derived from sugar beet to lightly deepen the skin’s tone while hyaluronic acid helps keep skin soft and supple. Cristina Montemayor, SELF, 27 May 2022 Pembina, a speck of a town on the border, boasts one bar, one school, one grocery store and four churches that cater to the sugar beet farmers and Customs and Border Protection employees who live there. New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022 As a teenager, Halvorsen thinned sugar beet fields on his family’s farm outside of Garland for up to 10 hours a day. Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022 Another fatal work accident involved a 53-year-old man who fell about 120 feet while cleaning a chute at a sugar beet processing plant in Bay City, Michigan, late last year. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021 The Danish sugar beet auction established the feasibility of a cryptosystem that could manage both computation and private inputs. Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 Gonzales was born in Denver and worked in sugar beet fields in his youth. Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 The company also told the town board that affected farmland (this is sugar beet country) would be buffered from any danger. Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021 See More
From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022 Ideal for dry, dull skin, this serum uses dihydroxyacetone derived from sugar beet to lightly deepen the skin’s tone while hyaluronic acid helps keep skin soft and supple. Cristina Montemayor, SELF, 27 May 2022 Pembina, a speck of a town on the border, boasts one bar, one school, one grocery store and four churches that cater to the sugar beet farmers and Customs and Border Protection employees who live there. New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022 As a teenager, Halvorsen thinned sugar beet fields on his family’s farm outside of Garland for up to 10 hours a day. Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022 Another fatal work accident involved a 53-year-old man who fell about 120 feet while cleaning a chute at a sugar beet processing plant in Bay City, Michigan, late last year. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2021 The Danish sugar beet auction established the feasibility of a cryptosystem that could manage both computation and private inputs. Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 Gonzales was born in Denver and worked in sugar beet fields in his youth. Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 The company also told the town board that affected farmland (this is sugar beet country) would be buffered from any danger. Audrey Gray, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1817, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
sugar beet
noun
: a large beet with white roots that is grown as a source of sugar