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cereal

[seer-ee-uhl] / ˈsɪər i əl /
NOUN
edible grain
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Although families pay to attend the sessions, Harrison said the principles could easily be applied using old tights, cereal boxes and unwanted clothing.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The findings also provide a foundation for investigating other recently identified TKPs in different cereal crops.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sometimes you order the wrong cereal, and sometimes you share someone’s bank statement with their co-workers.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

The cartoon turned the dynamic into an armed raid by cereal characters, but the basic instinct — watch a useful moral vocabulary become commercially useful — was already recognizable.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

He had lots of paper and crayons, and little boxes of cereal to eat, and different people brought him different things to play with and look at.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

They appear in everything from soft drinks and candy to desserts, packaged snacks, and breakfast cereals, often providing sweetness with fewer calories than traditional sugar.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

He's just been highlighting the high sugar content in various breakfast cereals while waving an empty box of a very sugary and chocolatey one at me.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

So Megan's kitchen is still full of fruit, vegetables, seeds and oats but there are now also breakfast cereals, crisps, biscuits and other processed foods too.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Out of that large field eventually emerged four companies that produce the bulk of breakfast cereals: Kellogg, General Mills, Post and Quaker Oats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

But many of the big seeds, notably those of the annual cereals and pulses, are edible by humans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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