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In the 1990s, the jelly-bean shaped Ford Taurus was a big hit, selling as many as 409,000 in 1992 before being passed by Toyota's Camry and Honda's Accord.
Ford Aims to Shake Up Family Car Market Mike Ramsey 2012
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It sells Laughing Cow cheese and confectionery items such as jelly-bean brand Jelly Belly.
China's Bright Food in Talks to Buy Australia's Manassen Laurie Burkitt 2011
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Chattanooga, which was tres yum, and played games including jelly-bean relay, charades, and a variant of "telephone" or "exquisite corpse" in which players alternately wrote phrases and drew pictures based on the previous picture/phrase without seeing any of the ones before that.
Kate is glad to have a birthday party samonwry 2009
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A small demon trilled its freedom to the universe as the fly-sized being rose from the mirror, but I caught it in my fist and crushed it until it popped, a tiny jelly-bean of ichor.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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A small demon trilled its freedom to the universe as the fly-sized being rose from the mirror, but I caught it in my fist and crushed it until it popped, a tiny jelly-bean of ichor.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Janie Shoenborn, design director for Lilly Pulitzer, has been drawn to "statement" clothing — bold, eye-catching pieces — and look-at-me prints since age 6, when she picked out a bathing suit with an all-over jelly-bean pattern.
Loud and Proud: Statement Clothing Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2010
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Frankly I like the organic jelly-bean shape of the concept drawing.
The Air-Powered MDI Car is Coming to the US! | Inhabitat 2008
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Janie Shoenborn, design director for Lilly Pulitzer, has been drawn to "statement" clothing — bold, eye-catching pieces — and look-at-me prints since age 6, when she picked out a bathing suit with an all-over jelly-bean pattern.
Loud and Proud: Statement Clothing Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2010
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Janie Shoenborn, design director for Lilly Pulitzer, has been drawn to "statement" clothing — bold, eye-catching pieces — and look-at-me prints since age 6, when she picked out a bathing suit with an all-over jelly-bean pattern.
Loud and Proud: Statement Clothing Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2010
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He couches a lot of his literary judgments in the form, "I like ...," as if he were picking out jelly-bean flavors.
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