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chicken

[chik-uhn] / ˈtʃɪk ən /




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Industrywide chicken oversupply is a commodity market dynamic.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Menu offerings include appetizers such as Dungeness crab cakes and lobster corn dogs, and entrées such as crispy chicken Milanese, honey miso glazed salmon and a signature Skywalker Ranch Wagyu burger.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Barbecue flatbread arrives piled with chicken, cheese, and sauce, as though California Pizza Kitchen had taken up Spanish.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

The immunisations recommended for all children under the order are for measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal disease, human papillomavirus, and varicella or chicken pox.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

I trotted along behind her, eager to get a glimpse of a picnic basket that promised fried chicken and buttered biscuits.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

The poultry industry has for years prioritized breeding bigger chickens, aiming to increase the amount of products harvested from each bird.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Of course being headless chickens we can’t think much.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

Facing rising costs for fuel and feed even as demand for his chickens drops, he recently had to freeze a third of his production for the first time ever.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Animal DNA came from cattle, pigs, chickens, dogs and cats.

From Science Daily Aug. 4, 2026

Apparently he wasn’t very good at getting along with the chickens on their farm; seems he saw them more as prey than his farm friends.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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