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breast

[brest] / brɛst /




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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 singer and musician succumbed to breast cancer on Sept. 28 in Nashville.

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

Pieces of nut falling from his beak littered his breast feathers.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Milk and chicken breasts have also slightly increased in the same period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

These are just some of the reasons why Charlotte Howard, 52, from West Lavington, says she is "disgusted" by her own breasts.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But for the women whose breasts have been wrongly removed, it is too late.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Their tails are iridescent green, and their breasts are small and bare.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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

Saturday’s muted variation on sartorial elegance - fitted double breasted wool suits, Left Bank dark turtle necks, loose, pin-striped jackets and sumptuous car coats - was just this.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2015

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

There were no fat little pigeon- breasted bags of gold.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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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