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flakes

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Corn flakes, made from rolling and drying the unsweetened grain, were the result of his experiments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

On today’s bait menu: a tin of Wild Planet sardines, a bag of tuna flakes and a clamshell container of roasted chicken wings Navratil picked up from 7-Eleven on the way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Miso, honey and red-pepper flakes deepen the mixture; pasta water turns it glossy enough to tuck itself into the tubes and folds of a sturdy short pasta.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Binface's policies had included nationalising the singer Adele, moving a pub hand dryer in Uxbridge and enforcing a 99p price tag on ice creams with 99 flakes.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

He arrived in the midst of an uncharacteristic April snowstorm, a sudden downpour of small icy flakes that scratched against the windows like fingernails.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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