cafeteria
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All 400 seats in the sweltering auditorium were filled, with an additional 300 people in the cafeteria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Vegetarian food is served cafeteria style and in practice if not by decree, eaten slowly, putting down the fork between bites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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
Then the cafeteria door opens and Kylee sticks her head out the door.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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An insidious bullying tactic is creeping into school cafeterias across the country: Kids are snapping and sharing photos of other students eating lunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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
And it’s happening more frequently, as an increasing number of schools have slowly started to serve brand-name fast foods in their cafeterias.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025
I slept with blacks in the same dormitory, ate meals with them in the same cafeterias.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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