half-cup
Americannoun
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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 instead offered a half-cup of lemonade and a small ration of jelly beans.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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
The masonry starts with a sort of little swallow's nest, a half-cup or thimble, whose circumference is completed by the wall against which it rests.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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