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Recent Examples of lunch counter
Zachary Huerta walks behind the lunch counter at recess to take another chocolate milk.
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
As Gold well understood, the fact that L.A.’s Korean dumpling shops, Armenian grocery stores, Thai lunch counters, and Salvadoran pupuserías are open to curious outsiders is one of the great privileges of living here.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
As Gold well understood, the fact that L.A.’s Korean dumpling shops, Armenian grocery stores, Thai lunch counters, and Salvadoran pupuserías are open to curious outsiders is one of the great privileges of living here.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lunch counter
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There are real goats and horses here, as well as a snack bar serving funnel cakes, plus hay bales stacked dangerously high, and all manners of rusty farming equipment painted to resemble barnyard animals.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
20 Oct. 2025
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In November 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco disappeared after she was fired from her job working the snack bar at a roller rink in Lynbrook.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The cafeteria smelled the same.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Regions with a strong military presence are reeling Last March, restauranteur Fran Bolden opened a cafeteria at the Redstone Arsenal, a US Army base near Huntsville, Alabama.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Chelsea Boots Chaco Fields Chelsea Waterproof For easy, versatile fall footwear, pack a boot that can handle everything from a simple hike to a reservation at a restaurant for dinner.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Oct. 2025
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Queensbridge Collective is a $700 million mixed-use development featuring 42 stories for apartments retail and restaurants and a 43-story office tower above more than 300 apartments on the border of the South End and uptown.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Oct. 2025
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Beyond employment, Wilson Administration officials re-segregated bathrooms, lunchrooms, and workspaces in federal buildings that had been integrated since the end of the Civil War.—
Time,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
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With an exception here and there, most of these guys started gambling as teens, playing lunchroom hold-em and NFL parlays for a buck or two a throw.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunch%20counter. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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