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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Home Alone" is a simple little confection from John Hughes.
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a peanut butter confection
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the interval a parcel containing fruit, confections and fancy bread was handed to all present.
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Given that the factory producing the chocolate is miles away, the resulting confections are really quite good.
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Good plan-except the result is a pretty dull confection for anyone but ardent Depp and praline fans.
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I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place.
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The popular image of Mrs Beeton as a middle-aged housewife given to the confection of extravagant recipes is doubly mistaken.
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There are restaurateurs and cookery journalists who like to call confections such as haddock and kipper paste by the name of pâté.
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They also presented that Gidon Kremer-Astor Piazzolla confection last Thursday.
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This sibling confection is steamed, not baked, nutty and almost as rich.