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Recent Examples of tub
Their giardiniera is shipped to more than 1,000 retailers, pretty good for a creation that began in a big bowl and a rubber tub in grandma and grandpa's kitchen.
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Edie Kasten, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Other highlights include a library gallery, a TV room, a wine cellar, and an exercise space, plus a posh primary suite holding an office, a private terrace, and a luxe bath showcased by a freestanding gray oval soaking tub.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2026
After climbing into a stainless-steel tub, the attendant pulled a plug.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2026
At about midday Tuesday, the Puerto Vallarta resident posted an image of a plastic tub with what appeared to be a pinto spiny lobster chilling inside.
—Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 Mar. 2026
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Edie Kasten, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Other highlights include a library gallery, a TV room, a wine cellar, and an exercise space, plus a posh primary suite holding an office, a private terrace, and a luxe bath showcased by a freestanding gray oval soaking tub.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2026
After climbing into a stainless-steel tub, the attendant pulled a plug.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 Mar. 2026
At about midday Tuesday, the Puerto Vallarta resident posted an image of a plastic tub with what appeared to be a pinto spiny lobster chilling inside.
—Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tub
Noun
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Behind every bottle of bourbon are vats of waste materials.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
25 Mar. 2026
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Instead my body felt like a vat of acid.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The trope of the hooker-in-the-dumpster is as old as TV itself.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2026
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Hayley — who turns out to be a hooker who does secretarial admin on the side and not an executive assistant who occasionally threesomes — is extorting him for $750,000.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2026
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She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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Their contractor installed a collection system on their metal roof, a 26,000-gallon underground cistern in the yard, and treatment modes including filtration, ultraviolet light and reverse osmosis.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Here’s hoping McCourt gives us a path of some kind — whether the city approves the gondola or not — because a pretty walk generations can enjoy would be a prettier civic legacy than driving a team into bankruptcy.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, a hilly section of the southern suburbs is now served by a gondola, Greater Paris’ first.—
Marie Patino,
Bloomberg,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This popular Spanish-inspired dish was served in cockleshells so reminiscent the Galicia region of Spain’s cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela.—
Jane Napier Neely,
La Cañada Valley Sun,
24 Apr. 2017
Noun
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Could Otega Oweh’s near half-court, 32-foot buzzer beater — a banker, no less — for Kentucky be as famous and memorable as Christian Laettner’s turnaround jumper for Duke to beat Kentucky in 1992?—
Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
25 Mar. 2026
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One Ojos volunteer quipped that the agents worked banker’s hours.—
Daniel Brook,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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Under Chinese doctrine the landing would carried out in boats, landing craft and hovercraft dropped by motherships close to the horizon.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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One of the vessels appears to be a hovercraft.—
Dave Boucher,
Freep.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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“Tub.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tub. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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