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confections

NOUN
sweet food
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With T. Bone Burnett holding forth in the producer’s chair yet again, “Long Long Road” matches its predecessor’s penchant for warmhearted storytelling and well-played musical confections.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Tehran’s streets burst with shoppers perusing markets for flowers, painted eggs and confections for their “haft-sin” table, the traditional spread of seven items symbolizing spring, renewal and prosperity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

Each candy embodies the joy of indulging in sugary confections.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025

“Sèvres Extraordinaire!” approaches its subject—pioneering, astonishing ceramic confections that are neither purely functional nor purely decorative but sui generis art, or “sculpture”—in the broadest sense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

They discovered that they could conjure splendid-looking confections, but were somewhat less successful when it came to flavor.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor



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