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
Combine a half-cup of honey and a half-cup of water.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
Then add a cup and a half of finely sliced rhubarb, a pinch of salt and a large half-cup of sugar.
From Vaughan's Vegetable Cook Book (4th edition) How to Cook and Use Rarer Vegetables and Herbs by Anonymous
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