chicken
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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
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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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