fortune cookie
noun
: a thin cookie folded to contain a slip of paper on which is printed a fortune, proverb, or humorous statement
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The French Silk pie that came with the fortune cookies didn't appear on the bill.
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Kyle Stokes, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
In Freaky Friday, the pair starred as single mother Tess and teen daughter Anna Coleman, who switch bodies after opening an enchanted fortune cookie and have to walk a day in each other’s shoes before getting back to normal.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
Little bags that once held fortune cookies, with pagodas faintly printed on them in red.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
While all record stores have a recognizable musk, Delta Breeze’s fragrance in the ground-floor of a 100-year-old Victorian duplex is complemented with the aroma of fortune cookies baking next door.
—Blake Gillespie, SPIN, 11 June 2024
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Kyle Stokes, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
In Freaky Friday, the pair starred as single mother Tess and teen daughter Anna Coleman, who switch bodies after opening an enchanted fortune cookie and have to walk a day in each other’s shoes before getting back to normal.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2024
Little bags that once held fortune cookies, with pagodas faintly printed on them in red.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
While all record stores have a recognizable musk, Delta Breeze’s fragrance in the ground-floor of a 100-year-old Victorian duplex is complemented with the aroma of fortune cookies baking next door.
—Blake Gillespie, SPIN, 11 June 2024
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“Fortune cookie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortune%20cookie. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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