cafeteria
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Vegetarian food is served cafeteria style and in practice if not by decree, eaten slowly, putting down the fork between bites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Army would set up a table inside the cafeteria of our high school where they would recruit these kids—not even young men and women—into the service.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
A noisy cafeteria may be where ideas start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
She picks up weekly produce deliveries in the South Los Angeles hospital’s cafeteria and attends its occasional cooking classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
“The cafeteria menu is on here, too,” Door said.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Yet schools have many fixed costs, such as maintaining, repairing, heating and cooling school buildings, operating cafeterias and managing many administrative functions that cannot easily be scaled down when enrollment declines inevitably reduce funding.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
At UC hospitals, union members work in cafeterias, as radiology technologists, nurse’s aides and patient transporters, among other roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
As someone who grew up with rock ’n’ roll, the hyper-amplified early Philip Glass Ensemble, and really noisy cafeterias, I was unbothered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Restaurants and cafeterias have also been locked up as owners take precautionary measures.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
At Mount Weather in Virginia, the government expanded an abandoned mine, constructing a small city inside the mountain: reservoir, power plants, sewage plants, cafeterias, a hospital, a crematorium.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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