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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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Standing on Walton’s main street near a fried chicken shop, Morgan Price, 22, is one of a million young Brits who aren’t in school, don’t have a job and aren’t training for one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But another chicken chain is drawing a line.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Served in a pita, it features European-style fried chicken topped with cold pickles, Levantine tahini and warm matbucha, a slow-cooked tomato-pepper condiment from North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Her first hit item was a baby rattle shaped like a chicken drumstick that was sold wrapped in cellophane, much like a meat-counter purchase.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Hunger opened up in the boy like a chasm, in spite of the bland chicken breast he’d just consumed.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

As well as the exotic animals, Wale also kept horses, goats, chickens and ducks, according to the enforcement appeal.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Looking across more than 550 million years of evolutionary history, the team found evidence of the same two-origin arrangement in chickens, zebrafish and even acorn worms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

But I could not go back there, with nobody but a few chickens to keep me company.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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