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cotton candy

NOUN
candy made of spun sugar threads
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The exposition popularized a host of snack foods that would become staples of American life, including ice-cream cones, peanut butter, hot dogs, hamburgers and cotton candy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

I can see how it might feel like it’s been treated like a ball of cotton candy to give it away.

From MarketWatch Apr. 6, 2026

This combination makes them extraordinarily low in density -- more like planetary-sized cotton candy than solid, rocky worlds.

From Science Daily Jan. 31, 2026

While Kardashian’s role was as delicious and ephemeral as a piece of cotton candy, Lesley Manville’s part in Murphy’s series “Grotesquerie” was the real substantial meal.

From Salon Dec. 16, 2024

Sadako could still taste the spun cotton candy.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr



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