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cafeteria

[kaf-i-teer-ee-uh] / ˌkæf ɪˈtɪər i ə /


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Back in Avenal that afternoon, they filed into the elementary-school cafeteria, passing a children’s ‘Voice-Level Chart’ on the wall before taking their seats for the rival council meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Army would set up a table inside the cafeteria of our high school where they would recruit these kids—not even young men and women—into the service.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2026

She picks up weekly produce deliveries in the South Los Angeles hospital’s cafeteria and attends its occasional cooking classes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

As if California were to suddenly become akin to Enver Hoxha’s Albania and Brin would be forced to take meals of beetroot and groats in the collective’s cafeteria.

From MarketWatch Jun. 1, 2026

Like how, when I ran out of the cafeteria in tears, Leo didn’t come after me.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Yet schools have many fixed costs, such as maintaining, repairing, heating and cooling school buildings, operating cafeterias and managing many administrative functions that cannot easily be scaled down when enrollment declines inevitably reduce funding.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

At UC hospitals, union members work in cafeterias, as radiology technologists and as nurse’s aides, among other roles.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

As someone who grew up with rock ’n’ roll, the hyper-amplified early Philip Glass Ensemble, and really noisy cafeterias, I was unbothered.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2025

Restaurants and cafeterias have also been locked up as owners take precautionary measures.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2025

Not the kind that you see at construction sites, or in school cafeterias whenever there was a spill.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds




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