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She was born the same day 45 years after McNeil and three A&T classmates sparked the Civil Rights Movement with their lunch counter protest at an F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro.
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Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Johnson’s programs, by contrast, were meant to desegregate not just schools and lunch counters but government assistance itself.
—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Soon after, Lane formed a biracial committee led by Fowler and Lowry to negotiate integration at retail lunch counters.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
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Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Johnson’s programs, by contrast, were meant to desegregate not just schools and lunch counters but government assistance itself.
—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Soon after, Lane formed a biracial committee led by Fowler and Lowry to negotiate integration at retail lunch counters.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunch counter
Noun
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Plus a snack bar, a few arcade games and plenty of space for kids to run around.—
Marcus Thompson II,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The old mill in the Christmas Market at Tivoli Gardens, which functions as a snack bar.—
Tamara Shopsin,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Redding was then found inside the school cafeteria and was allegedly carrying a gun in his backpack, Sheriff Mina added.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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This dish not only takes me back to eating lunch with friends at my college cafeteria but was also a weekly side dish at my mom's dinner table.—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves.—
Elazar Sontag,
Washington Post,
14 Jan. 2026
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Over the years, Grains and Taps has expanded from selling local and worldwide beer selections to offering their own brews, opened a second location at Pine Tree Plaza and added a restaurant.—
Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Geraldine Timms, a high school lunchroom worker in Chicago, is frequently credited with the idea, offering a solution to a glut of sauerkraut that school systems found themselves with in the 1960s.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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The district decided staff reduction was its path forward, trimming positions at the central office, lunchroom monitors, assistant High school principals, campus clerical positions, and teachers.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunch%20counter. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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