pancake
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It is also the meal at which I most frequently perform what I call “a pancake for the table?”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Neighbors hosted pancake breakfasts and spaghetti nights to raise money for lawyers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
They relied on the "pancake model," a widely used semi-analytic approach that describes how a bolide fragments while passing through an atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Dishes she's made range from panackelty, a stew consisting of potatoes, onions and corned beef, to Staffordshire oatcakes, a type of yeasted pancake, and Lancashire hotpot, made with mutton or lamb.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
“Alex!” his mother laughed, as Radar bounded across the room in two steps, caught the pancake in mid-air, and wolfed it down in a single gulp.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
The restaurant’s TikTok videos carry many AI telltales, from ube pancakes slathered in pulsating purple sauce to a three-handed bartender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
While sipping on his coffee and munching on extra crispy bacon and blueberry pancakes Sunday morning, Baker sat at the Otesaga Resort where the Hall of Famers stay during induction weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
There were pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast, and then Pa brought the horses and sled to the door.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
"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
Espy described the situation as “very grim,” with many high-rises leveled or pancaked in the tourist destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Driving down the newly paved military road along Gaza's border with Egypt, we pass the shattered remains of the old Rafah border crossing, the roof of one building cracked and pancaked on the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025
Rescuers stood atop the pancaked floors of one building in Amizmiz, bits of carpet and furniture protruding from the rubble.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 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
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
The 11th overall pick in the draft that year was a pancaking left tackle who looked every bit a potentially dominant building block for the Jets’ offensive line as a rookie.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
They hit again, pushing, pummeling, pancaking, claiming dominance of a field they once ruled, a moment they once owned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
How, eleven years after entire cities fell down, are we being treated to scenes of more Haitian church roofs collapsing, more Haitian hotels pancaking, and more voices screaming from inside the rubble?
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2021
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
