half-cup
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One half-cup serving of Campbell’s Homestyle Chicken Noodle soup has 890 milligrams ofsodium.The can contains 2,225 milligrams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Children were offered a half-cup of lemonade and a small ration of jelly beans on their trip to the imaginary sweet factory.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
This is equivalent to two to three servings per day, where one serving equates to a cup of soy milk, three ounces of tofu or a half-cup of cooked soybeans.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2024
I dumped a little too much red sauce from an open jar on a half-cup of leftover macaroni; adding a defrosted sliced chicken sausage did not help.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
Put a half-cup of drippings into a saucepan, thicken it with two tablespoonfuls of flour, cut into it and brown two small onions.
From Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs by Anonymous
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