chicken
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Others have shifted to chicken, beverage and other competitors that offer friendlier service and fuller staffing, customers and market-research firms said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The trailer that kept the chicken cold between Arkansas and your store.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
On today’s bait menu: a tin of Wild Planet sardines, a bag of tuna flakes and a clamshell container of roasted chicken wings Navratil picked up from 7-Eleven on the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Costco chicken bake provides the filling inspiration.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Behind her on the kitchen table two parcels were tied up in napkins: cold fried chicken, a roasting ear, a jar each of pickled peaches for sure, and I don’t know what all.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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“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
The elderly grimace, hobbling on crutches, and wide-eyed children stare, cradling chickens carried from homes they were forced to leave behind.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Now all the chickens are coming to roost here at the end of the year,” said Melissa Wall of Aprio, an accounting and advisory firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
As orders flood into the restaurant via online food delivery services and a walk-up window, a butcher slices through whole chickens while one cook flips thin slabs of steak and chicken on a grill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Would her instruction to think of the chickens as baby dodos be enough to prevent mayhem?
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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