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To complete the Chargers’ blue-collar mentality, black lunch pails were recently dropped at every locker.
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
If the 12-team CFP had started earlier, which low seeds could have made a run?
'Brought his lunch pail to work': Behind Islanders rookie Isaiah George's unexpected rise
Mandel's Mailbag: Boise State 4-seed scenarios and the aftermath of Utah's Big 12 meltdown
Could Jeff Hoffman start?
—New York Times, 13 Nov. 2024
Naharin offers little context apart from a silver pail of dark sludge methodically smeared across the dancers’ faces, chests and thighs.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
If the 12-team CFP had started earlier, which low seeds could have made a run?
'Brought his lunch pail to work': Behind Islanders rookie Isaiah George's unexpected rise
Mandel's Mailbag: Boise State 4-seed scenarios and the aftermath of Utah's Big 12 meltdown
Could Jeff Hoffman start?
—New York Times, 13 Nov. 2024
Naharin offers little context apart from a silver pail of dark sludge methodically smeared across the dancers’ faces, chests and thighs.
—Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pail
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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