chicken
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Current demand is gangbusters, but spending is a game of chicken until multiple factor-of-10 improvements kick in and prices collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
But another chicken chain is drawing a line.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Similarly, Finnish driver Anita Mäkelä has won the European championship four times – three of them after a six-year break focusing on her children and running her family's chicken farm.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Both its kosher preparation—using oil instead of butter and chicken instead of pork—and its fixture as a workhorse dish speak to a rigidity and an adaptability that define Israeli cuisine and, more broadly, life there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
I was squalling like a scared chicken as I was pulled to the head of my bed, and propped to a sitting position with a pillow.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Guoth said he put his ducks and chickens in the bathroom and weighed down his boats and trailers so "nothing flips over".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Looking across more than 550 million years of evolutionary history, the team found evidence of the same two-origin arrangement in chickens, zebrafish and even acorn worms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
But we live on his farm now, and if I have to live on a farm, I think it ought to be an interesting one, with chickens and ducks and maybe some peacocks or something.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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