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[snak] / snæk /


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However, PepsiCo’s stock is down around 10.6% so far this year, as inflation-battered shoppers have recalibrated their snack budgets and gravitated toward cheaper private-label brands.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

That late-night snack might have consequences beyond extra calories.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Before dawn breaks over Mumbai, Mansi Kadam begins preparing vada pav, a savoury snack synonymous with the western Indian city, for the day's customers.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Commuters on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner can enjoy a snack while taking in the sights, at a fraction of the cost of a plane ticket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

When Max and Josie ate applesauce and cheese crackers for morning snack, there was nothing in the world for either of them but that applesauce and those cheese crackers.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Pepsi has tried to revive its North American snacks business with price cuts, new products and more marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

There will be snacks, drinks, live music, kid crafts, a bouncy house, a handful of actors in Shakespearean garb and scads of neighbors being neighborly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

But it could also include kombucha, seaweed snacks, muesli and chewing gum, depending on their sugar content.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Ultra-processed foods include products such as packaged snacks, fast food, sugary drinks, and other industrially manufactured foods.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

“It seems this may take a while. Perhaps I ought to call for some snacks to be brought in?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Research group Circana says that last year 48.8% of consumers snacked three or more times a day, up 2.7 percentage points over 2024.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

In between pulls, she snacked on freeze-dried duck liver bits and got a massage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Guests snacked on canapés and hors d’oeuvres before proceeding upstairs for the main course.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2025

As he pulled an almond off a tree and snacked on it, he said he would prefer to see farmland preserved for growing healthy food.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

Out in the fields, where he weeded and harvested from August to October, he snacked on corn, cabbage, and other vegetables.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

A late-night snacking episode can be a way to disconnect from the stress of daily life as a working parent, for example.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Add to this the sugar-hit snacking that keeps some shift workers going overnight and it makes for an extremely unhealthy cocktail.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

With more people taking GLP-1 weight-loss treatments, food companies face both an opportunity and a looming threat, particularly for snacking categories that have long relied on high-calorie tastes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Chicks Luna and Sandy were seen safe and sound Sunday morning around 6 a.m. on the popular livestream nest cam aimed at their Big Bear pine tree, snacking on fish in the family aerie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

They, too, are snacking on candies for emotional reasons; they, too, are searching the grainy newsreel for the faces of fiances.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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