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refreshment

[ri-fresh-muhnt] / rɪˈfrɛʃ mənt /
NOUN
small amount of food or drink
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Water supplies, breaks and refreshment areas are also required on days deemed as critical.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Niccol said during the investor meeting that the company needed to further refine its supply-chain operations to guarantee more regular refreshment of goods to stores.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

A current "refreshment area" will be approximately doubled to around 100 square metres, he said.

From Barron's Feb. 16, 2026

But the weekend gathering wasn’t all hand-wringing and liquid refreshment.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2025

They were separated from our island by but two hundred yards of water—a channel scarcely sufficient to splash through as refreshment on a summer’s day.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Farage and Kenyon were in the area and simply "popped in" for refreshments, the letter stated.

From BBC May 22, 2026

The new L9 and other refreshments in its L series could be critical for 2026 volume momentum, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

"I'm really happy that people have a place to do this," she told AFP between her table of refreshments and the green camping tent she shares with her mother, stepbrother, and his mother.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

After cancelling it, they put me on a different flight that had no TVs and sent me a $25 voucher for refreshments.

From MarketWatch Feb. 11, 2026

We laughed and talked, and Wynn ran back and forth for refreshments in between Nan hollering suggestions and inspiring quotes from the porch.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry




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