: a carbonated soft drink colored usually with caramel and flavored usually with extracts from kola nuts
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cost-of-living adjustment
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cost-of-living allowance
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2024
The spiked soda comes in 8-ounce cans, similar to Red Bull, in either cola or fruit punch flavors.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
Think cherry cola or rich merlots rather than bright pillar-box reds for this look.
—refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2024
But, the hint of cola in the chocolate cookie combined with the popping candies in the vanilla cream did make for an effervescent bite.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
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Deadline revealed back in April that the studio bought the project for $1 million-plus as a pitch, telling the true story of Pepsi’s attempt to challenge Coca-Cola’s century-long reign as the world’s top cola.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2024
The spiked soda comes in 8-ounce cans, similar to Red Bull, in either cola or fruit punch flavors.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2024
Think cherry cola or rich merlots rather than bright pillar-box reds for this look.
—refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2024
But, the hint of cola in the chocolate cookie combined with the popping candies in the vanilla cream did make for an effervescent bite.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
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“Cola.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cola. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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