chicken breast
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chicken breast
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Nationally, a pound of chicken breast cost $4.15 and cheddar cheese cost $5.79 a pound, both little changed from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Data gathered at the checkout counter between March 9, 2024, and March 1, 2025, showed that chicken breast prices rose by $.30 per pound, reaching an average of $5.75 per pound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025
On Jan. 24, Wegmans issued a recall for its store-brand frozen, breaded chicken breast nuggets over possible contamination with extraneous material, specifically bone fragments.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
In the experiments the researchers cooked chicken breast using five different methods: pan frying, stir-frying, deep-fat frying, boiling and air-frying, in a well-controlled research kitchen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
He ate his chicken breast and started on the thigh, looking at me now and then in his hard way.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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