pancake
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The pancake arrives, exactly as promised, and everyone gets an extra bite of something sweet.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Whether the station was helping fight the fires of 2025 or running a pancake breakfast, McIndoe said, Fanara pitched in, supplying pizzas and sausages, offering pizza-making lessons and refusing payment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
They relied on the "pancake model," a widely used semi-analytic approach that describes how a bolide fragments while passing through an atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Its undulating form has earned its share of abuse, and it has been compared to a pancake or an amoeba.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“I’m proud of you, Mia,” my mother says, carefully pouring the pancake batter into a large glass bowl.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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A vendor selling savoury pancakes, who did not give his name, said two universities had been established since the facilities were built.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
For nearly five decades, they served up diner classics like steak and eggs and a hearty stack of pancakes while infusing the meals with touches that showcased their Chinese heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Johnnycakes, Rhode Island’s famous cornmeal pancakes, were another dish mentioned by readers that I’ve gotten to enjoy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Similarly, packaged pancakes and waffles are filled with sugars and are often ultraprocessed, loaded with harmful additives.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
She and Mom and Malc had pancakes for dinner, so when she answers the door, the smell drifts out, and he says, Mmm.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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"They pulled out a man and a baby, but the wife is still in there," he said near a pancaked multistory building.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Espy described the situation as “very grim,” with many high-rises leveled or pancaked in the tourist destination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Driving down the newly paved military road along Gaza's border with Egypt, we pass the shattered remains of the old Rafah border crossing, the roof of one building cracked and pancaked on the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025
Rescuers stood atop the pancaked floors of one building in Amizmiz, bits of carpet and furniture protruding from the rubble.
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2023
Bending over with great effort, Ignatius stuck a finger into the valve of one of the tires until the hissing stopped and the tire’s bottom pancaked across the brick gutter.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Then, last Tuesday, Jackie started pancaking — lying flat in the nest bowl — for long stretches and her eyes looked sleepy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
It can flatten from the savage forces it experiences as it decelerates in a process called, and I love this, pancaking.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023
This week a container slid off a truck making a turn on a narrow street, pancaking a parked car.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
Without air, we’d continue accelerating at 22 mph every second until pancaking into the ground.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
And just then a paper bag sailed from a window to my left and burst like a silent grenade, scattering garbage into the trees and pancaking to earth with a soggy, exhausted plop!
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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