How to Use jujube in a Sentence
jujube
noun-
Try a dash of herbs, a twist of lemon, or even fruit like goji berries or jujubes.
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Caroline Tien,
SELF,
5 Feb. 2026
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In a soccer-field-sized garden, the family grew pomegranates, jujubes, and other produce.
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Vidushi Mishti Sharma,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Guests are also treated to a cup of homemade snow fungus tea (made from tremella mushrooms) with a single jujube, or red, date, floating inside.
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Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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Cherries, peaches, pears, nectarines and a variety of other fruits like jujubes (also known as Chinese dates) grow alongside greenhouse crops that stretch the season.
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Brittany Anas,
Denver Post,
10 June 2026
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These, along with an orchard featuring an array of fruit trees including apricots, nectarines, oranges, lemons, limes, plums, peaches, figs, guavas and jujubes, plus a dragon fruit tower, are all part of the garden’s common area.
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Nicole Sours Larson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Sep. 2025
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It’s formulated with a blend of chaga, lion’s mane, cordyceps and reishi mushrooms, plus adaptogens lemon balm, passion flower, L-theanine, mucuna pruriens, ashwagandha, holy basil, magnolia bark and wild jujube.
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Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
7 May 2026
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Candidates for the mysterious narcotic plant eaten by Odysseus’s men in the land of the Lotus-Eaters include the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) and the jujube (Ziziphus jujuba).
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Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
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