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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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A few years ago, an experimental McDonald’s drive-thru system became convinced that two customers needed an almost ceremonial quantity of chicken McNuggets.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Current demand is gangbusters, but spending is a game of chicken until multiple factor-of-10 improvements kick in and prices collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Dobbertin, who spent years in Thailand, created her own crunchwrap featuring a tortilla wrapped around marinated chicken in a khao soi coconut curry with avocado basil ranch and crisp wheat noodles for added crunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Fishmeal helped fuel the post-World War II expansion of industrial chicken and hog farming, particularly in Europe and the United States.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Now I could go home, and maybe Gran had cooked a chicken.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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 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

The elderly grimace, hobbling on crutches, and wide-eyed children stare, cradling chickens carried from homes they were forced to leave behind.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

I walked through a small village where chickens and gnomes were scattered among little houses with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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