chicken
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Trader Joe’s, of course, has done its part to thaw people’s feelings toward the freezer aisle: the orange chicken, the soup dumplings, the cheese-filled fiocchetti with pink sauce.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
"I don't care how much criticism we get, I am just never going to agree with a butter chicken tsunami coming to New Zealand," government minister Shane Jones told a local radio show.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Some irregular food items such as chicken and pig were also detected in the samples, suggesting that wolves are also scavenging from human waste disposal sites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
There is also a chicken character, but it doesn’t appear much more real than its animated counterpart—just weirder, like something that escaped from an underground lab at Perdue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
“What does chicken pox have to do with it?” he wanted to know, but my mother said he was just tired of watching Charlie and me scratch.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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We followed them back to their house where they found all of the chickens still alive.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“My father built a cabin and gardened; we raised chickens and sheep. My mother was a schoolteacher who sewed all my clothes and dolls.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
"I don't know how and where to get the ID card; now I'll go and check," said 17-year-old Abdulrehman Sudais, standing beside a crate of chickens he had carried across the border for his mother.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Scottish shipyards may think they are in pole position but, as Hine points out, don't count your chickens - or warships - before they're hatched.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The original farmers grew vegetable gardens and fruit orchards, and they raised chickens and sheep and goats.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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