junk food
Example Sentences
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But today, with our easy access to cheap, calorie-dense junk food and sedentary routines, those same adaptations that once helped us to survive can cause us a few issues.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“If you’ve only fed them junk food and then you put some beautiful Michelin-star food in front of them, it’ll seem alien to them,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
"But this study has shown that not only are they doing it for those reasons, but also as a result of eating too much junk food, which is something that is quite novel."
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
All too many of the newer ones are investment junk food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
He remembered reading something about junk food in one of the books in the attic and asking his mother about it.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
