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cafe

[ka-fay, kuh-, ka-fay] / kæˈfeɪ, kə-, kaˈfeɪ /


café


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"Honestly, my first reaction was: 'Not again'," said Airi Hiane, a 23-year-old cafe worker.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

In January 2025, the cafe was fined £18,000 and its proprietor Baris Yucel was given 100 hours of community service after admitting six criminal charges related to the Food Safety Act.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Walsh said that the Prospect Heights cafe receives roughly one order per minute during business hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The cafe will join the new building’s yet-to-be announced restaurant, which is already holding private events including a recent unveiling of an Ed Ruscha-designed poster for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film, “Digger.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

It had nothing to do with France itself, with wearing hats or writing tortured letters from a sidewalk cafe.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Recently, I was ordering coffee at a neighborhood café, one location of a regional chain.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

We arrived at Orikum and sat down for a caffè freddo at a café overlooking the sea.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

A nearby café was damaged and one customer was taken to hospital after the strike.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Stanislav Zavertaylo, co-owner of the popular Zavertailo chain, told the BBC that this was his third café to have been damaged since the start of the full-scale invasion.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

We went down the stairs to the café on the ground floor.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

It’s set in Los Angeles but the cafés and shops are obviously not local and the worst, most dated stock L.A. traffic footage can’t cover that up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

We would be sipping ice-cold spritzes at cafés overlooking the Mediterranean, frolicking down cobblestone streets lined with charming boutiques, and marveling at the frescoes and marble sculptures adorning grand cathedrals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

“The hype started in Japan. In Japan there are even cafés where you have contact with capybaras. And the internet helped, and the public is always curious. They want to know about the species.”

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Some of Hollywood's biggest names are in Scotland for a remake of the 80s cult hit Highlander - and have been surprising locals by turning up at shops and cafés in the Highlands.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

There were restaurants, advertised as cafés, and opera houses and polo grounds.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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