sweets

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The Guardian newspaper once quoted him as saying: "I've always said what's the point in owning a sweet shop if you can't eat a few sweets."

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

"I thought Canada is safe," he said, next to sweets spread out on the boxing ring's mat, part of festivities marking the Persian New Year, called Nowruz.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

“All the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in his mind,” Emerson writes, “as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

She spoke of pastry shops selling sweets so enticing that barely any survived the trip home.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

He stood below, handing them up to us while leaning on a chair, and gave me money to go and buy the biscuits and sweets he usually lavished on us at Christmas.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo