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[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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I love a party, but lately the trick has been to spend time with loved ones and feed them well with easy recipes like chicken piccata, flan, spaghetti al limone and this caramelized-corn salad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Sporting a futuristic leather-textured suit, Lady Gaga can be seen working behind the counter, offering fried chicken to customers and restocking bottled tea in the video clip released on Friday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Next year it'll be banning something else relatively small...until we're all just eating, you know, chicken nuggets, and we'll have no culinary heritage whatsoever."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

But now, I seriously doubted anyone was going to hand me a bronze statue for the way I yelled at my kids for not finishing their chicken nuggets.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

They passed a chicken coop, and beside that a pen for fat guinea pigs.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Looking across more than 550 million years of evolutionary history, the team found evidence of the same two-origin arrangement in chickens, zebrafish and even acorn worms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

The British-born conservative strategist and political commentator raises chickens at his Silicon Valley home and has said he named one of them “Xavier.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The chickens, after a moment of ruffled-feather confusion, did the same.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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