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"Everything here is earned. At private schools the facilities are provided, but here there are no silver spoons, we have to put the work in."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

As we speak, he gamely spoons chicken noodle soup into his mouth with a plastic spoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Ivorian schoolchildren crowd around masks, finely carved turtles, and ceremonial spoons once admired by visitors of Zurich's Rietberg Museum.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

There are some evenings where you, literally, just don’t have the spoons to deal with a knife.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026

The midwife had lost another tooth, and was hobbling about on her broken ankle, throwing copper pots and cooking spoons about the cottage in her anger at age and teeth and life.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman




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