Example Sentences
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But Costco is already king of hot dogs, toilet paper, precooked chicken and even travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Though EBT food assistance prohibits the purchase of precooked items like pizza slices, customers have workarounds: First, Dalia sold the woman a frozen pizza.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
Listeria’s ability to adapt and proliferate under varied conditions means “it’s an ongoing battle,” especially at large food-processing establishments like BrucePac, which churns out precooked, ready-to-eat meat and poultry products in huge quantities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
In the past few years, it has become trendy north of the Mexican border as a marketable flavor for snacks and pantry products like potato chips, chili crisp and precooked rice.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
Here in Bat Deng’s market, long homemade wooden tables display dried fish, slabs of pork, yellow naked chickens, green beans, white corn, red tomatoes, orange mangoes, ripe guava, papayas, and some precooked food.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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