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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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The company offers two sizes of burlap gift bags, and the larger of them can hold as many as 16 different spice tins.The Courier-Journal, The Courier-Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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Thanksgiving Tin Foil Containers: $14.95 (Amazon) Use these festive tins from Amazon to carry your Thanksgiving treats to your holiday parties.Nora Colomer, Fox News, 28 Oct. 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
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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 21 Nov. 2024.
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