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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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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

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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