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Police, Warren County's Tactical Response Unit and a SWAT team had to deploy gas canisters into the home to get McClain to surrender.
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Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2024
It’s also outfitted with a swiveling head to steer around corners, plus a detachable canister that offers better reach for above-ground messes on furniture, car seats, and windowsills.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Quintero hid for two hours in a closet, listening to gunshots and what sounded like bombs — possibly grenades or tear-gas canisters.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
Nitrous oxide gas is easily accessible Various brands of nitrous oxide canisters can easily be bought online from major marketplaces including Walmart, Amazon and Ebay.
—Alex Clark, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2024
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Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 Nov. 2024
It’s also outfitted with a swiveling head to steer around corners, plus a detachable canister that offers better reach for above-ground messes on furniture, car seats, and windowsills.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Quintero hid for two hours in a closet, listening to gunshots and what sounded like bombs — possibly grenades or tear-gas canisters.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
Nitrous oxide gas is easily accessible Various brands of nitrous oxide canisters can easily be bought online from major marketplaces including Walmart, Amazon and Ebay.
—Alex Clark, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canister
Noun
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Choices include the classic version (packaged in a box or tin), limoncello, pear and chocolate, and panettone with pistachio cream.Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Most recoveries were of large, nonferrous cargoes sunk during the First and Second World Wars—tin, copper, gold, and silver—and very few were lifted from more than a few hundred metres of water.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Every new bourbon seems to have an intricate backstory that involves important figures in whiskey history, recipes passed down between generations, and claims of being the first to put something in a particular type of barrel.Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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The whisky uses three different barrel types in maturation.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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One balanced chunks of concrete in its metal bucket, and a reporter remarked that encampment residents had surely not been the ones to pour that cement.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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In her bucket of fries is a scroll telling her that a hidden immunity idol is sewn into the corner of the tarp in the middle of the camp.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Canister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canister. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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