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food chain

[food cheyn] / ˈfud ˌtʃeɪn /
NOUN
feeding relationships among organisms
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Cava Group jumped 4.7% after the Mediterranean fast-casual food chain beat analysts’ expectations for first-quarter earnings and revenue.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

They’re the last ones owned and operated by Ed Hackbarth, the founder of the Mexican fast food chain.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Hook joins the New York company from Chicago-style food chain Portillo’s, where she had been finance chief since late 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

"Our findings suggest that the earliest octopuses were gigantic predators that occupied the top of the marine food chain in the Cretaceous," says Professor Yasuhiro Iba of Hokkaido University.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

Because it was as close as I could get to the original food chain, the way people fed themselves for the tens of thousands of years before agriculture.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan




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