breast
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Whole Foods frozen fried garlic breaded chicken breast fillets: I cannot overstate my affection for these things.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Next, they exposed cultured human liver, cervical, breast, and lung cancer cells to the albumin and palladacycle complex for 48 hours.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The surviving sisters explained that Nicole was diagnosed in 2022 with Stage 3 breast cancer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Among the cancers examined were those affecting the esophagus, mouth, and breast.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
He tapped his breast solemnly when he reached the words that always moved him, even though spoken in the secret tongue of a dead language: Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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I tend to start with the protein and work outward: If two chicken breasts comfortably feed your two-person household, chop and freeze two with the scallions and ginger.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Know how to check your breasts for cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride and Wayne-Sanderson Farms already have been ramping up production of boneless chicken breasts and wings to meet what is expected to be an onslaught of consumer demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jeff Cook, vice president of market operations, said the grocer ran a monthslong sale of $1.99 per pound of chicken breasts earlier this year and several $2.99 per pound promotions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Some had seven or eight and didn’t understand how fortunate they were, how blessed that their children had flourished in their wombs, lived to squirm in their arms and take the milk from their breasts.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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“Do you want single breasted or double breasted? Do you want a coat? Do you want it baggy? Do you want it slim? What color? What fabric?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
Classy tailoring on suits, such as a double breasted number that opened the show with a delicate nip at the waists, contrasted with white sneakers and vests.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
Among the species he reported seeing were the hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-capped chickadee, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch and red-bellied woodpecker.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2021
Double- breasted or three-button coats and a plethora of vests made for a sharp and smart collection.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2014
He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Cormorants balancing on the calcified poles of long-abandoned jetties, looked, as they spread their wings to dry in the sun, like runners breasting a tape.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
Tyrion put his heels into his horse and trotted through the Mud Gate, breasting the human tide.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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