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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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Once I noticed this pattern, I realized it’s how I make most of my favorite soups: tomato soup, corn chowders, vegetable soups, bean soups and even chicken soup.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"Next year it'll be banning something else relatively small...until we're all just eating, you know, chicken nuggets, and we'll have no culinary heritage whatsoever."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Caviar and Champagne is giving way to caviar and chicken nuggets as cheap options expand the market to mainstream consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

But I've had enough of second-guessing myself and panicking I'm poisoning my child if I feed him chicken nuggets, so I've given my shopping list to a dietitian to analyse.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“If you have chicken pox, you can’t come back without a note from the doctor,” she said, and Imogene said, “Oh. Okay,” and got up and left.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Looking across more than 550 million years of evolutionary history, the team found evidence of the same two-origin arrangement in chickens, zebrafish and even acorn worms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

"Spielberg said, 'The Great Escape is one of my favourite films, and I have 300 chickens on my ranch!' So it went very well."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Still the chickens did not stir, not even as the heavy tread of boots on dirt approached.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood




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