as in candy
a sweet food made from cacao beans
She gave me a box of chocolates for my birthday.
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Recent Examples of chocolate
Flavors include tiramisu cheesecake, macchiato cream cake, strawberry chocolate mousse and ube cream.
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Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2025
Instead, each guest was given a single chocolate ice pop.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 June 2025
Be Mindful Of Space Unlike many common gifts—bottles of wine, gourmet snacks and chocolates, bath products, and the like—secondhand products are generally not consumable and therefore will take up space in your recipient's home.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
There’s a black-and-white mille-feuille featuring crackly chocolate dentelle cookies rolled into cigars and stacked with layers of vanilla and chocolate cream, and an exemplary coconut cake at lunchtime.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
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Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2025
Instead, each guest was given a single chocolate ice pop.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 10 June 2025
Be Mindful Of Space Unlike many common gifts—bottles of wine, gourmet snacks and chocolates, bath products, and the like—secondhand products are generally not consumable and therefore will take up space in your recipient's home.
—Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 10 June 2025
There’s a black-and-white mille-feuille featuring crackly chocolate dentelle cookies rolled into cigars and stacked with layers of vanilla and chocolate cream, and an exemplary coconut cake at lunchtime.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chocolate
candy
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In March, with Easter around the corner, trending purchases included a crock pot for hosting as well as candy like gummy clusters and ring lollipops.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
21 June 2025
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Though really, adjacent seems to better describe Karl, scion of a wealthy Cincinnati family that built its fortune on candy.—
John Birdsall
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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“Chocolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chocolate. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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