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way the cookie crumbles









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Sometimes, with fiction, it’s sic biscuitus disintegratum — that’s the way the cookie crumbles.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2021

It rings so hollow and yet that’s the answer to all my unanswerable questions: that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2019

Emily chatters about the way the cookie crumbles.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2013

If anything it gives the other side added motivation but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2010

That may well be the way the cookie crumbles off Newport in the days ahead.

From Time Magazine Archive