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Recent Examples of pail
Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Authorities In an update post, the council shared a video showing how the beach cleanup was going as volunteers scoured the sand, picking up the debris with a metal tool and throwing it into a pail.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
The walkway has dog bags and garbage pails, too.
—Annemarie Dooling, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Authorities In an update post, the council shared a video showing how the beach cleanup was going as volunteers scoured the sand, picking up the debris with a metal tool and throwing it into a pail.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
The walkway has dog bags and garbage pails, too.
—Annemarie Dooling, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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