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Recent Examples of tin can
Any one of them could hold 48,000 bananas or 24,000 tin cans or maybe 12,000 shoe boxes.
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Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
Length: 16 hours, 7 minutes Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
For those trapped in a tin can for just over 16 hours, channel your inner-Major Tom with Andy Weir’s space drama, Project Hail Mary.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 21 June 2024
The sheet that had been covering me was sopping wet and smelled strangely of my body, tin cans, and cayenne pepper.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
The tin can easily be reused to store small items like a sewing kit, small toys, or Christmas cards.
—Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2022
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Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
Length: 16 hours, 7 minutes Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
For those trapped in a tin can for just over 16 hours, channel your inner-Major Tom with Andy Weir’s space drama, Project Hail Mary.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 21 June 2024
The sheet that had been covering me was sopping wet and smelled strangely of my body, tin cans, and cayenne pepper.
—Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
The tin can easily be reused to store small items like a sewing kit, small toys, or Christmas cards.
—Marissa Wu, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tin can
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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Switching to the Bass Boost preset makes the drums thunderous, but the sound becomes aggressively scooped, overwhelming the mids.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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For a front-load washing machine, a good rule of thumb is to allow about 6 inches of clearing from the top of the drum to the load.Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Here and elsewhere, guests are handed metal bottles on arrival, to use and refill from glass carafes of water in their mini fridges or from large canisters in the common areas.John Corrigan, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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The canister was filled to the max with dust, pet hair, and (grossly) my own.Ali Faccenda, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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“Tin can.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin%20can. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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