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Centers for Disease Control has warned the public not to buy, sell or serve the company’s raw cheddar cheese, which five of those who had an E. coli infection say they ate before their illness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

To avoid yield traps we also looked for names whose quarterly dividend payments ate up no more than 75% of their earnings.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Participants recorded everything they ate using a mobile app and weighed themselves daily with a wireless scale.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

The father’s response: “We paid $47,000 for our first house in 1982. We had a 16% mortgage rate. We ate noodles for dinner. She wants us to just hand her $200,000 because houses are expensive?”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

In reality, I’m thinking about the last time I ate cookies-and.cream ice cream.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller