For example, a user might post on TaskRabbit that she needs someone to go to the grocery store and pick up eggs, bananas, and chocolate chip cookies.

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Justices attempted to break the argument down to an everyday level by discussing things like chocolate chip cookies, baseball bats and Amazonian jungle plants in attempts to understand the complicated issues.

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Want champagne and hot chocolate chip cookies at 2AM?

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The military work also prompted discoveries of new strains of algae, which explains why next to its research labs Solazyme built a kitchen to bake up batches of chocolate chip cookies, honey mustard dipping sauce and crackers.

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After polishing off the pizza, the volunteers were presented with three generous platters of oatmeal-raisin, chocolate-chip and double-chocolate-chip cookies, and asked to rate them.

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So you think recipe, you know, maybe birthday cake, chocolate-chip cookies, something you might actually eat.

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So people, a lot of times, if they want to eat chocolate-chip cookies or birthday cake, they have a recipe book that tells them how to do that, where they might not have a recipe book for the master cleanse diet, or for Ratatouille, for that matter.

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