canteen
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Money does not change hands among residents, not in its cooperative grocery store nor community canteen.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Half-a-million pounds was spent on the Blue Flax canteen - which caters for assembly members, staff and visitors - when it was renovated last summer.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
“Having mobility strength is like having done the physical training and having the whole canteen of water as you hike up that mountain,” Chandrasekaran said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
In addition, many staff perks, including a paid-for staff canteen, have been axed.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
We shared a thick cheese-and-onion sandwich and a wedge of pecan pie and a canteen of water.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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Since then, mobile phones, smartwatches and tablets have been exiled from classrooms, corridors and canteens in schools across the Netherlands.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
At the height of the Cold War, Moscow operated an airport on Svalbard and three mining towns complete with state-of-the-art health facilities and 24-hour canteens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Imperial College London dropped beef from most of its canteens two years ago, replacing it with venison alongside chicken and pork.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
“The main thing is just not to starve to death,” one video blogger advised in a post detailing how she subsisted on snack samples and free meals from temples and student canteens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Overleaf: US soldiers are soaked by a downpour as they carefully fill their canteens with fresh rainwater, 1968.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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