canteen
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In Volkswagen’s hometown of Wolfsburg, the company’s taste for self-sufficiency extends to making its own sausages for the staff canteen and owning the local soccer club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Money does not change hands among residents, not in its cooperative grocery store nor community canteen.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Over in the canteen, Syrian and African musicians chow down with Posdnuos from De La Soul and sitar legend Anoushka Shankar.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
A refurbishment of the Stormont assembly canteen cost nearly £200,000 more than its original budget.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
Then she pulled an energy bar and her canteen out of her backpack for some approximation of lunch.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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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
From school and university canteens to football stadiums and theatres, venison is muscling in on beef as UK chefs hunt for greener options.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
“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
Exposing people to positive social norms, using posters in canteens encouraging vegetable consumption, or in bars to discourage dangerous levels of drinking, have been shown to work.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
There were already more than three hundred men squatting and kneeling on the top deck of the Heywood, rearranging their equipment in the dark—C rations, canteens, entrenching tools, gas masks, rounds of ammunition, steel helmets.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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