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cappuccino

[kap-oo-chee-noh, kah-poo-, kahp-poot-chee-naw] / ˌkæp ʊˈtʃi noʊ, ˌkɑ pʊ-, ˌkɑp putˈtʃi nɔ /


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Everyone has their method: Alton Brown swears by a dollop of mayonnaise; Martha Stewart sometimes froths hers in a cappuccino maker.

From Salon Nov. 13, 2025

I did not, so I arranged to road-test the Breville Oracle Jet—a foolproof Cadillac for cappuccino lovers, I was told.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 7, 2025

At an M&S Cafe in central London that the BBC visited, Matthew Wilsher has just got a cappuccino to go.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2025

Then I’d have my husband go to the kitchen and make me my first coffee — a pistachio milk cappuccino — which he’d bring to me in bed.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2024

Two students were talking to her, and then one of them gave her a cappuccino in a tall paper cup.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Robots were everywhere, dancing in unison, making cappuccinos, shooting soccer goals, massaging visitors and playing the piano.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Carrying two steaming cappuccinos from a popular American coffee chain on Thursday, Niels Berthelsen took the time to stop despite the icy cold winds whipping the streets of Nuuk, the Greenlandic capital.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

With that specialization also came espresso beverages—the flat whites, cappuccinos, and Americanos that now make up the baseline menu for most coffee shops.

From Slate Dec. 22, 2025

Customers can pay an extra £1 to add a mushroom powder or a supplement called collagen to drinks from lattes to cappuccinos.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2025

In the fifties it filled the heads of the Beats like the foam in their cappuccinos.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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