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pancake

[pan-kayk] / ˈpænˌkeɪk /


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The current manager, Pat Murphy, had some of Kuenn’s folksy eccentricity, quizzing his young children at press conferences and once touting the midgame deliciousness of a pancake stuffed into his uniform’s back pocket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

One of the nice things is, like Meta's Quest 3, it has flat "pancake" lenses allowing you to see clearly when you put the headset on.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The pancake arrives, exactly as promised, and everyone gets an extra bite of something sweet.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Whether the station was helping fight the fires of 2025 or running a pancake breakfast, McIndoe said, Fanara pitched in, supplying pizzas and sausages, offering pizza-making lessons and refusing payment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mom is not a pancake mom, but there are pancakes and bacon and eggs and warm syrup.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

Along with morning staples like biscuits and pancakes, there are specialties like tomato gravy and mush, a regional dish of fried cornmeal strips with syrup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The buttermilk pancakes were wonderful, and I especially loved the steak and eggs, with a perfectly charred steak and rich orange-yolked eggs.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

At Prezzo, members receive drinks or desserts when they spend at least £25, while Bill's offers a bottle of prosecco or pancakes when qualifying meals are ordered and the booking is made in advance.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

A vendor selling savoury pancakes, who did not give his name, said two universities had been established since the facilities were built.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Mom took a break from writing and had breakfast with me and Dad, and I made pancakes that were sort of shaped like chickens, if you used your imagination.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

"They pulled out a man and a baby, but the wife is still in there," he said near a pancaked multistory building.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Espy described the situation as “very grim,” with many high-rises leveled or pancaked in the tourist destination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

There are pictures from Ishikawa of old wooden houses pancaked by the quake.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024

Rescuers stood atop the pancaked floors of one building in Amizmiz, bits of carpet and furniture protruding from the rubble.

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023

Bending over with great effort, Ignatius stuck a finger into the valve of one of the tires until the hissing stopped and the tire’s bottom pancaked across the brick gutter.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Brandon Baker, Mater Dei, Sr.: He’s leading a Monarchs’ offensive line that is pancaking opponents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

It can flatten from the savage forces it experiences as it decelerates in a process called, and I love this, pancaking.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

The 11th overall pick in the draft that year was a pancaking left tackle who looked every bit a potentially dominant building block for the Jets’ offensive line as a rookie.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Without air, we’d continue accelerating at 22 mph every second until pancaking into the ground.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021

And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop!

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison


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