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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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Sources told NBC News that Combs paid inmates to clean and cook special meals for him, including curry chicken, pizza and empanadas, and that the hip-hop and R&B music producer also receives Chinese-style massages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Similarly, Finnish driver Anita Mäkelä has won the European championship four times – three of them after a six-year break focusing on her children and running her family's chicken farm.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Both its kosher preparation—using oil instead of butter and chicken instead of pork—and its fixture as a workhorse dish speak to a rigidity and an adaptability that define Israeli cuisine and, more broadly, life there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

White wine vinegar — or even plain distilled white vinegar — is excellent with potatoes, creamy chicken soups and corn chowders.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Cold chicken, cold cornbread, sliced tomatoes with thin slivers of onion on top, and her sour pickles.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

“The chickens are coming home to roost for a lot of people,” said Sean Burton, chief executive of the multifamily firm Cityview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Looking across more than 550 million years of evolutionary history, the team found evidence of the same two-origin arrangement in chickens, zebrafish and even acorn worms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

"The chickens are the reason I was successful in Japan," he explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

“But these dancers are far more nimble than chickens, and better fliers, too,” she decided.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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