fortune cookie
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of fortune cookie
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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Curtis described Freakier Friday - about a mother and daughter who switch bodies thanks to a magical Chinese fortune cookie - as "more fun and more emotional" than their 2003 film.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
He came across the phrase on a slip of paper in a Chinese fortune cookie back in the early 1990s, and pasted it, as he regularly did other finds, in a notebook.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Originally called “motto hearts,” the heart-shaped candies were conceived from a “cockle,” a Civil War-era scalloped candy that contained a wholesome message written on colored paper inside it, akin to a fortune cookie.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024
Arttu Luukanen, the team’s representative at the event, offered me a bright yellow fortune cookie made from the powder.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2023
“You’d let someone read that in their fortune cookie, and it would come true?”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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