loaf
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You’ve decided to make a sandwich and reach for your loaf of bread, but the “sell-by date” on the bag has passed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
After considerable reporting, she crowned the famous cranberry-walnut loaf at Le Diplomate.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Google searches, external for this slightly sweet Japanese loaf have been rising steadily in the UK over the last five years.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Arthur Bryant’s has my favorite ribs, and when you order, they bring out a whole loaf of Wonder Bread, which is still very novel and exciting to me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Jack Eagle ate three thick caribou steaks and a loaf of bread before he went back to the ice.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Craftsman’s Valley features booths where artisans show off such skills as blacksmithing or glassblowing, and the Grist Mill churns out loaves of the park’s famed cinnamon bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The resulting sourdough loaves were not only higher in nutritional value but also showed a broader range of flavors.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
He is one of the few people outside the military who travel to the most dangerous areas, delivering bread to outlying villages that he makes in his own bakery, which produces 17,000 loaves per week.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
In a truck parked in the Kyiv region, Loic Nervi kneaded the dough vigorously before sliding dozens of tins into the oven -- loaves that will later be handed out to Ukrainians.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
He was not going to bring up the loaves and fishes in today’s sermon, was a good guess.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Remove, punch down, and knead a few times before dividing in half to form two loafs.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
“That’s our biggest emphasis, minimizing our missed assignments and our loafs, which is just effort in playing,” Niumatalolo said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022
He stresses the “HITS” principle — his acronym for Hustle, Intensity, Takeaways and playing Smart — and counts loafs in practice.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
“You take an ounce of peanut butter and spread it over five loafs of bread and you say everybody got something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
He struts and loafs through the kitchen and lords it over the men.
From Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California by Dixon, Thomas
The idea of public space felt foreign, something I could access only through movies where people loafed around Central Park and sipped espressos in packed Italian piazzas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
And in the “early candle-light of old age,” Whitman loafed by the waters of Timber Creek, near his friend Harry Stafford’s family farm in Laurel Springs, New Jersey.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 22, 2017
He loafed around for the next two months and used up the money he had been saving to buy me a ring.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2016
Perhaps 40 pelicans loafed around the island’s shoreline or circled in the air above.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2014
One day his southern neighbor, Joe Mondragon, loafed over.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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One of the reasons a steakhouse is such a prime place to order meatloaf is simple: the meat they are loafing is usually excellent.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
Walt Whitman inspired a former teacher’s fascination with loafing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
But after a year and a half of loafing around the Roku home menu, my brain is eager for cultural engagement that requires the participation of my body.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Dubois probably hastened the trade by loafing in the first period of Thursday’s loss to Tampa Bay.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2021
Pages later—hearing and exposed—Whitman starts to write about all the travel he can do by imagining, and lists all the places he can visit while loafing on the grass.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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