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grocery store

noun

chiefly US

: a store that sells food and household supplies : supermarket

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The two pursue a relationship after a chance meet-cute in the grocery store, but are currently not together in the series. —Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 5 June 2025 There could be indirect price increases at the grocery store as well. —Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 5 June 2025 In a better world, Chicagoans would be getting a small break at the grocery store. —The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 Fifty-percent tariffs on steel and aluminum will likely raise the price paid at the grocery store for each can of soup or soda by about 1 cent, Hauk said. —Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for grocery store

Rhymes for grocery store

• conquistador
• forevermore
• hereinbefore
• kinetochore
• kwashiorkor
• abhor
• abor
• adore
• afore
• ardour
• ashore
• backdoor

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