canteen
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The final plan adopted in 2022 added details such as meeting facilities, a fitness center, canteen, Patriot Store and other “community-serving activities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Money does not change hands among residents, not in its cooperative grocery store nor community canteen.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Half-a-million pounds was spent on the Blue Flax canteen - which caters for assembly members, staff and visitors - when it was renovated last summer.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
“Having mobility strength is like having done the physical training and having the whole canteen of water as you hike up that mountain,” Chandrasekaran said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
I sip from the canteen and stow it with the cup.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The ad-hoc canteens range in scale from a single food truck in a parking lot to field kitchens fit for an army.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
At a time when restaurants and canteens were limited, carrying meals from home mattered deeply in a city where food was tied to culture, religion and family routine.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
At the height of the Cold War, Moscow operated an airport on Svalbard and three mining towns complete with state-of-the-art health facilities and 24-hour canteens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
“The main thing is just not to starve to death,” one video blogger advised in a post detailing how she subsisted on snack samples and free meals from temples and student canteens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
They have only two canteens of water, each half-empty.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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