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apple-pie
[ ap-uhl-pahy ]
adjective
- pertaining to or embodying values perceived as traditionally American, or, more broadly, as unassailable:
apple-pie virtues of individualism and hard work;
an apple-pie issue that no politician could vote against.
yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of apple-pie1
Example Sentences
Most of the yards along the way were dotted with bright yellow and blue âYes on 8â lawn signs with an image of an apple-pie conventional family that looked like it was from the 1950s instead of the 21st century: mom, dad, son, daughter, the females wearing dresses.
It could have raised funds it needed elsewhere, through traditional, home-spun, apple-pie American institutions like private equity behemoths.
But even now, the findings have a gentle, apple-pie allure.
Heâs a pleasingly inoffensive, nonthreateningly masculine, apple-pie type, but like so many all-American commodities, thereâs more lurking in that designation.
In a company-produced video, Mr. Mintz touted the various products his kitchens made, from cream cheese to ravioli to apple-pie pizza and, of course, Tofutti ice cream.
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