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Recent Examples of tin can
His one weakness may be kryptonite, but clearly, a tin can getting thrown at his head isn’t fun either.
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Zoe Guy, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
Collecting her life savings from a tin can, Tereza first heads to the travel agency to buy a round-trip commercial airline ticket, the first one available.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
The episode ended on the streets of New York outside the studio, with Kotb driving off in her white minivan, daughters Haley and Hope in the back seat and tin cans tied to the bumper, wedding-style.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2025
The government soldiers left behind a filthy jumble of army life: clothes, blankets, gas masks and helmets, and empty tin cans.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Zoe Guy, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
Collecting her life savings from a tin can, Tereza first heads to the travel agency to buy a round-trip commercial airline ticket, the first one available.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
The episode ended on the streets of New York outside the studio, with Kotb driving off in her white minivan, daughters Haley and Hope in the back seat and tin cans tied to the bumper, wedding-style.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Jan. 2025
The government soldiers left behind a filthy jumble of army life: clothes, blankets, gas masks and helmets, and empty tin cans.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tin can
Noun
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Think tea leaves, tins for candles, cans for drinks, packaging, hardware — the list goes on.—
Mimi Montgomery,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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The underlying mechanics involve a slab waveguide composed of a silicon nitride core, a photoconductive silicon-rich nitride layer, and an indium tin oxide electrode.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This Editorial Board has been banging the drum for better treatment.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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Elliott spits her verses in patois, freeing up space on the track for the drums to get some before Cartel and M.I.A. slide through. 41.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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While technically not a standard upright style, the bagged canister vacuum is not bulky.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
9 Apr. 2025
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While a few crumbs might not take much power to remove, an entire canister’s worth is a different story, and the vacuum handled it with ease.—
Shea Simmons,
People.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Tin can.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin%20can. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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