Chiclets
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He’d been rooting around dusty barns at an agricultural estate sale and found pristine packs of Chiclets and Life Savers inside a sealed Mason jar, including one unopened Choc-O-Mint.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
And Chiclets, a constant rattling in his front shirt pocket.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025
Terry would send American magazines, U.S. currency, Chiclets gum, and Gillette razors for Lilly to use on her legs and for her dad to use on his face.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2023
Having fled the Dominican Republic, Alvarez found America to be not a land of milk and honey but “the land of Milk/ Duds, Chiclets, gumdrops.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2019
He said at the last minute the cute one with the braids decided on ten cents’ worth of Chiclets, cinnamon, yellow, green.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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