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drug store

  • a variation of drugstore.
    drugstore
    noun
    the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.

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It’s a world in which it is easier to fail than to succeed, a world that a lot of people picking up a paperback for quarter at the drug store would have recognized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

Before that though, she’d paint them herself with different shades of drug store nail polish from red, green, blue and sometimes even do French tips.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2024

Sessa is now the 21st century equivalent of the starlet discovered at the local drug store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

The drug store chain said it will remove a small number of oral decongestants that contain phenylephrine as the only active ingredient.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

Students walked across the Queen Street Bridge to downtown Hampton and converged on the lunch counters at Woolworth’s and Wornom’s, the local drug store.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly