confection
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“Whatever it is, it’s very healthy,” he says when I ask what sort of confection he chose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
We can’t resist a pretty confection, no matter how bad for us it might be.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Arguably most prominent was her role as the central of five ballerinas in “Divertimento No. 15,” Balanchine’s Mozart-inspired confection from 1956, where she displayed gyroscopic turns and air-filled, feathery footwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Anna Wintour, the Global Editorial Director of Vogue magazine, wore a feathery custom Chanel confection to her signature event.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
It was so large that it took two servants on each side and one in the back to push the enormous wheeled trolley that bore this confection out of the kitchen.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Her “It” girls often keep company with a coterie of tiny monkeys, kittens or creatures with confections for heads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
As an executive at Hershey, it’s Rinaldi’s duty to know important dates years in advance to understand how it could affect the company’s ability to sell chocolates, sweets and sugary confections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Each candy embodies the joy of indulging in sugary confections.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
The company initially began as a small family licorice business and has since branched out into several varieties of confections.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024
In the autumn of 1971 a man used to come to our house, bearing confections in his pocket and hopes of ascertaining the life or death of his family.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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