as in bought
made beforehand in large numbers he served store-bought biscuits and airily pretended he had baked them himself

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Recent Examples of store-bought On Fridays, Lozano will do sandwiches, but even those will be home-made, without a crust, instead of store-bought. Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025 Bake a tray of chicken tenders (store-bought or homemade), set out flour tortillas, and offer a few sauces, pickles, and shredded lettuce. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 June 2025 Like potato chips—objectively better store-bought, don’t fight me on this—sometimes a factory just does it better. Emma Laperruque, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025 Other factors also play into this, like whether the bread was homemade or store-bought and the general environment of your kitchen. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for store-bought
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  • The chain said that refunds would be available to patrons who had pre-bought tickets.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 July 2022
  • Cineplex has also begun offering refunds to all customers that pre-bought tickets for upcoming film screenings.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2022
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  • The latest cuts are the third wave of reductions in administrative and other non-store jobs in 2025, following Kroger's back-to-back cuts in February and March.
    Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The store cuts come months after Kroger announced two rounds of layoffs of an unspecified number of non-store workers this spring.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 June 2025

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“Store-bought.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/store-bought. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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