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grocery store

noun

chiefly US
: a store that sells food and household supplies : supermarket

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One of the most unexpected reliefs came in the grocery store aisles. Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025 Seeing whole — and sometimes live — lobsters, crabs, octopuses, and fish in our kitchen was nothing out of the ordinary, and things like chicken feet and pigs' heads were readily available at our neighborhood grocery store. Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Nov. 2025 Consumers may not see prices change much at the grocery store over the next six months because all the cattle that are now being prepared for slaughter will still be processed, potentially just at a different plant. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025 The national grocery store has three full turkeys (along with a slew of other Thanksgiving-friendly sides and ingredients) for fans to choose from for this year’s Turkey Day. Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for grocery store

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“Grocery store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20store. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.

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