pancake
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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
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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
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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
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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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