snack
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After the changes, snack sales were up 15% from a year before.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Though the beetles snack on fruits we might also desire, they’re generally not considered pests, said Karey Windbiel-Rojas, an associate director with the University of California’s statewide integrated pest management program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
A massive star has been torn apart and gradually consumed by a black hole in a spectacular event that scientists compared to "preparing a snack for lunch."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
In previous research on dogs, the same brain region has been found to light up when the dogs anticipated a tasty snack, or smelled a familiar person.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Unlike the first time they’d tried to lure it, it wouldn’t be able to resist its favorite snack.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
It also appeared that Guzmán López had brought along snacks from the Mexican gas station chain Oxxo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Target has changed the presentation of nearly half of its center-aisle groceries, adding more space for snacks and newer products.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
A deluge of sour, briny snacks has infiltrated the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Other manifesto pledges have included forcing water company bosses to swim in polluted rivers and banning loud snacks in cinemas.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
"He look like the type of dude who would own a store that just sells...snacks. Like, you know what kind of guy you gotta be to just sell snacks? Snacks?"
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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
Survey participants who were controlling their type 2 diabetes ate fewer sugary foods and snacked less overall than participants without diabetes and those whose blood sugar levels indicated they were prediabetic.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
She had some baby carrots in a Ziploc, too, although all she had snacked on so far was her melted chocolate.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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
The new CEO has set out to streamline Nestlé’s portfolio around coffee, snacking, nutrition, and pet care, believing all four segments can deliver high-single-digit revenue growth.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Other humans, like Mariana Aidar, president of the animal-welfare nonprofit Projeto CAPA—the woman presently holding out the sugarcane to the capybara snacking away on the riverbank—are fighting for their capybara neighbors to survive.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
“They told Bertha they didn’t want to wake up one night to find a dragon snacking on their legs.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
