pancake
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Evans compared its divided circular body to a "bathmat" or "pancake."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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
I love a pancake breakfast, but I especially love a banana pancake breakfast.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Its undulating form has earned its share of abuse, and it has been compared to a pancake or an amoeba.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Service would be denied, voices would be raised, and she'd wind up drinking her tea at some pancake restaurant in midtown.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
Hot and dry noodles with seafood, Beijing crêpes filled with satay beef, Sichuan pancakes stuffed with char siu pork.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Right next to the pancakes is a plate of perfectly crispy bacon, and Sneaky’s mom is scrambling eggs at the stove.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
"They pulled out a man and a baby, but the wife is still in there," he said near a pancaked multistory building.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 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
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
But certainly they are moving in the same direction, and there should be no joy found in watching the present and past pancaking back on itself.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 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
This week a container slid off a truck making a turn on a narrow street, pancaking a parked car.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 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
