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pancake

[pan-keyk] / ˈpænˌkeɪk /


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At a pancake house, Judy Henion, 76, called the town’s handling of taxpayer money “loosey goosey.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The act is very simple: I ask whether anyone would like a pancake for the table.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

Whether the station was helping fight the fires of 2025 or running a pancake breakfast, McIndoe said, Fanara pitched in, supplying pizzas and sausages, offering pizza-making lessons and refusing payment.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Using the pancake model together with values derived from earlier studies, the researchers estimated how many bolides from Earth or Mars could have reached Venus' clouds.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

My dad cracks open the eggs, pours the milk and pancake mix.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

Johnnycakes, Rhode Island’s famous cornmeal pancakes, were another dish mentioned by readers that I’ve gotten to enjoy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Similarly, packaged pancakes and waffles are filled with sugars and are often ultraprocessed, loaded with harmful additives.

From MarketWatch Jun. 21, 2026

Here are a few of my favorite ways to do more with those overripe bananas, from pancakes to a sticky, caramel cookie bar.

From Salon Jun. 20, 2026

It's pancakes for Christie, while John Souttar is the barista to McGinn.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

She found him behind a row of timing belts when she brought a lunch of scallion pancakes.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

"This is betrayal. Sheer betrayal," he said, adding people were still trapped under pancaked buildings in some areas.

From Reuters Sep. 12, 2023

Skeletal remains of buildings bowed under roofs that pancaked in the blaze.

From Washington Times Aug. 11, 2023

During the last Ice Age, a 3,000-foot-thick glacier pancaked most of the Puget Sound region, looming as high as planes.

From Seattle Times Mar. 17, 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

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

There also some alternative fun names for splooting, such as “frogging,” “frog dogging,” pancaking and “superman.”

From Slate Aug. 10, 2022

Without air, we’d continue accelerating at 22 mph every second until pancaking into the ground.

From Washington Post Aug. 8, 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




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