snack
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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
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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
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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
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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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