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dinner

[din-er] / ˈdɪn ər /


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Maggie Hennessy explores what diners’ changing preferences mean for dinner time.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

What was supposed to simplify dinner can turn it into another administrative process requiring a charged device and a willingness to look at it.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

We never talk business at the family dinner table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

On 21 October 1966, as a primary school and surrounding homes in Aberfan were engulfed by slurry from a collapsed coal tip, a dinner lady was collecting money from pupils.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

At the dinner table, he suddenly falls into "a fit."

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

While others find peace through meditation and community dinners, Gibbs finds it through the brigade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The restaurant occupied a sprawling shopping center alongside an Olive Garden, a Cabela’s and a Costco, making it something of a regional mecca for homecoming dinners, birthday parties and Little League victories.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

It also remains unclear what, if anything of significance, was discussed at the two dinners.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The result is, I feel like I just end up paying for other people’s birthday dinners a lot, as well as my own, which is an imbalance.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Go away! Begone! I can’t stand it, all those little dinners dancing around. It’s too much, I tell you!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques


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