supper
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“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,” the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: “If their song is sweet to hear.”
From Salon ● May 15, 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
Baty started hosting supper clubs from his East London flat before heading to New York to work in restaurants.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
I had peeked in yesterday, when she was off scrounging up my sad supper.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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We had a family tradition of Sunday suppers, and when we didn’t eat at home, we would go out to restaurants like Olive Garden.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
Meanwhile Kerry Burley, who has been a regular at Burns suppers for more than a decade, is about to become president of Sandyford Burns Club in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
Sunday suppers are also when they divvy up things that need to get done around the house.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
Alex spent most of the school day trying to decide whether he should skip suppers on days when he had lunch in school.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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