snack
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A massive star has been torn apart and gradually consumed by a black hole in a spectacular event that scientists compared to "preparing a snack for lunch."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
"When I don't feel like having a proper meal, I'll just eat latiao instead. I also like to snack on them while watching TV shows."
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Or you could stop for a snack at Cafe Aquatica, whose patio fronts the water’s edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
In previous research on dogs, the same brain region has been found to light up when the dogs anticipated a tasty snack, or smelled a familiar person.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
She once saved a mission by disabling an Indonesian passenger train using only “some rando stuff I found in the snack bar.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
According to Circana’s data, pickle-flavored snacks grew 30% in sales over the past year, compared with a 3.8% growth in the snack category overall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Other manifesto pledges have included forcing water company bosses to swim in polluted rivers and banning loud snacks in cinemas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
A factory producing conventional cosmetics or packaged snacks can adapt them for Muslim customers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Also on its front page, the PM has been told to "tone down his 'blokeish' videos", including one that rated pub snacks.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Elegant ambassadors with their fancy wives on their arms pick snacks off silver trays.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
He even snacked on caviar with friends and colleagues on a chartered jet to San Antonio to watch Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Research group Circana says that last year 48.8% of consumers snacked three or more times a day, up 2.7 percentage points over 2024.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026
Guests snacked on canapés and hors d’oeuvres before proceeding upstairs for the main course.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025
Survey participants who were controlling their type 2 diabetes ate fewer sugary foods and snacked less overall than participants without diabetes and those whose blood sugar levels indicated they were prediabetic.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
On benches nearby, families snacked on samosas and pakoras.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Add to this the sugar-hit snacking that keeps some shift workers going overnight and it makes for an extremely unhealthy cocktail.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Snacking is still important, indulgent snacking is still important.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Chicks Luna and Sandy were seen safe and sound Sunday morning around 6 a.m. on the popular livestream nest cam aimed at their Big Bear pine tree, snacking on fish in the family aerie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Other humans, like Mariana Aidar, president of the animal-welfare nonprofit Projeto CAPA—the woman presently holding out the sugarcane to the capybara snacking away on the riverbank—are fighting for their capybara neighbors to survive.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Brother Quang forces a swallow before explaining we are used to fresh-killed chicken that roamed the yard snacking on grains and worms.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
