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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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Standing on Walton’s main street near a fried chicken shop, Morgan Price, 22, is one of a million young Brits who aren’t in school, don’t have a job and aren’t training for one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

A few years ago, an experimental McDonald’s drive-thru system became convinced that two customers needed an almost ceremonial quantity of chicken McNuggets.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Taco Bell certainly has, using fried chicken, biscuits, waffles and even fried cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Sources told NBC News that Combs paid inmates to clean and cook special meals for him, including curry chicken, pizza and empanadas, and that the hip-hop and R&B music producer also receives Chinese-style massages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Jonah cast one last longing glance at the chicken and went back to the front door.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Members of the Amish community call the county home, riding horse-drawn buggies and operating farms with chickens, pigs, cows and horses on their properties just outside of the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

"Spielberg said, 'The Great Escape is one of my favourite films, and I have 300 chickens on my ranch!' So it went very well."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 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

There were people in the pen feeding the goats, sheep, chickens, and bunnies.

From "Pony Problems: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #3" by Carolyn Keene




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