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supper

[suhp-er] / ˈsʌp ər /


NOUN
reception
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
disacknowledgment




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"I was sitting watching on television with my supper on a tray thinking: 'I'm going to be able to retire with the proceeds of this song'," he told the newspaper.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

How could the staid old supper table compete with that?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

"The restaurant we went up to last night for supper, they were all talking about it."

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

For more than 100 years, the restaurant has been serving the De Pere community with classic supper club fare.

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026

Mama and Daisy were in the kitchen fixing supper.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

President Andrew Crook said the price of cod had doubled in the past year and claimed consumers were ditching fish suppers for cheaper ready meals.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

The heart of the space is an airy, sophisticated sitting room that connects on the south side to a dining room suggestive of decadent late night suppers in postwar Paris, and an industrial-inflected kitchen.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

“It’s not all open vistas of the seas and shingled cottages of the rich. It’s cold, hard, long winters, people having bean suppers at church, traditions that go back to the 1600s.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

According to The American Menu archives, a 1903 Café Martin menu advertised 69 champagnes; it was aggressively promoted at late-night suppers and celebrations.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022

Like the rest of us, she wanted to serve suppers, and scold servants, and set aside money in her almari to have her eyebrows threaded every three weeks at the Chinese beauty parlor.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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