breast
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It was the first time Davis had appeared at a public event since announcing on 11 August that she has stage four breast cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Sales of our proteins and modifiers have increased 300 to 400%. They’ll substitute out three ounces of chicken and get a full chicken breast, which is eight ounces of chicken.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Researchers do not yet know what is driving the increase in breast cancer among women younger than 50.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
To make the protein pop, Conagra designed a custom marinade and added grill marks to the chicken breast slices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
He lay on his back for a while, Amanda’s scarf held with both paws to his breast.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Know how to check your breasts for cancer.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The NHS says to check your breasts, external or chest about once a month.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Retail prices for boneless chicken breasts were down about 1.4% in June from a year prior, according to the Labor Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Wholesale prices for boneless, skinless chicken breasts are down about 37% from 12 months ago, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," she murmured and thumped her breasts.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
The postwar “Bold Look” promoted by Esquire magazine in the spring of 1948 features a man with a boldly printed tie; pinstripes and double breasted cuts likewise remained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
The assistant bar manager, for instance, wears a sports jacket of burgundy velvet; the bar manager wears the double breasted version of the same garment, which is incrementally fancier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
Classy tailoring on suits, such as a double breasted number that opened the show with a delicate nip at the waists, contrasted with white sneakers and vests.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
Saturday’s muted variation on sartorial elegance - fitted double breasted wool suits, Left Bank dark turtle necks, loose, pin-striped jackets and sumptuous car coats - was just this.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 24, 2015
He appears wearing a double- breasted suit, an unneeded raincoat draped over his arm.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The point is for his team to be playing its best basketball in March, like a sprinter hitting top speed while breasting the finish-line tape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Part of Singapore's reason for dismissing American pedagogy is "navigational" in a geopolitical sense: Lee Hsien Loong likens his country to a small but doughty craft breasting powerful riptides of global economics and politics.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
Back on my bike, breasting the air, freshly euphoric, I rode south.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
In Douglas’s case, he leans forward, as if forever grasping the prow of a Viking ship, breasting the waves and building up an appetite for experience.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2016
Why couldn’t she have come inside the sweet, cool store when we saw them breasting the hill?
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
