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confectionery

[kuhn-fek-shuh-ner-ee] / kənˈfɛk ʃəˌnɛr i /
NOUN
candy store
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Growth was led by the Nespresso-maker’s coffee businesses, and its confectionery business.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

After a visit home, I returned to campus with a stockpile, like a confectionery smuggler crossing state lines with sugary contraband stuffed between sweatshirts in my suitcase.

From Salon Mar. 17, 2026

Since joining the series, Leith has sampled scores of competitors’ signature bakes, judged technical baking challenges and marveled at numerous bakers’ memorable confectionery showstoppers.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 21, 2026

Ferragni's legal troubles related in part to her 2022 endorsement of a pandoro cake made by Italian confectionery company Balocco that purported to raise funds for children undergoing treatment at a Turin hospital.

From Barron's Jan. 14, 2026

I’ve always regarded the Pepper Imp as the king of the confectionery bag.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling

Consumption was negatively associated with the intake of healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables and pulses, and positively associated with the consumption of confectioneries.

From Science Daily Jun. 18, 2024

And her line of the family happened to inherit Cheil Jedang, CJ, which was a food supplier at the time, just cheap confectioneries and all that.

From The Verge Apr. 10, 2020

Some of us," said he, "love to deck ourselves in academic confectioneries, but the old breeze of American ridicule will save us from carrying our mortar boards too high.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Detroit, a man confessed to breaking into 13 confectioneries to stuff himself with fancy desserts.

From Time Magazine Archive

And pray, do you take your great old fashioned tankard, Mr. Newington, from among my jellies and confectioneries.

From The Parent's Assistant by Maria Edgeworth




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