pancake
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One of the nice things is, like Meta's Quest 3, it has flat "pancake" lenses allowing you to see clearly when you put the headset on.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“You’re not serving pancake batter on a Friday or a Monday, so you have excess waste,” Reitz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Evans compared its divided circular body to a "bathmat" or "pancake."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
It is my homemade equivalent of ordering the pancake for the table.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mom is not a pancake mom, but there are pancakes and bacon and eggs and warm syrup.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
The buttermilk pancakes were wonderful, and I especially loved the steak and eggs, with a perfectly charred steak and rich orange-yolked eggs.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Main streets were lined with food stalls—pulled pork, pancakes, grilled corn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
At Prezzo, members receive drinks or desserts when they spend at least £25, while Bill's offers a bottle of prosecco or pancakes when qualifying meals are ordered and the booking is made in advance.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
A vendor selling savoury pancakes, who did not give his name, said two universities had been established since the facilities were built.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Incorrigibles wanted to play, too, but Penelope explained that they would help choose the winner and must therefore stay behind and eat second helpings of pancakes in order to maintain their neutrality.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
"One of the rescuers asked anyone trapped to whistle, and someone whistled back," he said near a pancaked building.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The fraternity house I lived in was a mere block from the Northridge Meadows, the apartment building that pancaked along Reseda Boulevard, killing 16.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
There are pictures from Ishikawa of old wooden houses pancaked by the quake.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024
"This is betrayal. Sheer betrayal," he said, adding people were still trapped under pancaked buildings in some areas.
From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2023
Bending over with great effort, Ignatius stuck a finger into the valve of one of the tires until the hissing stopped and the tire’s bottom pancaked across the brick gutter.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Then, last Tuesday, Jackie started pancaking — lying flat in the nest bowl — for long stretches and her eyes looked sleepy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
It can flatten from the savage forces it experiences as it decelerates in a process called, and I love this, pancaking.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
Without air, we’d continue accelerating at 22 mph every second until pancaking into the ground.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
As his team sits at 4-1 with him in the lineup, the golden-haired behemoth has been pancaking legends such as Rams nose tackle Ndamukong Suh.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop!
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
