1
as in ton
a considerable amount
a visit to an amusement park should be a barrel of laughs
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as in to race
to proceed or move quickly
faced with a firm deadline, we barreled through the project at a furious pace
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Recent Examples of barrel
Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 2 Nov. 2024
The device arrives in a set with seven attachments, though the long barrel wands are our favorite for curling, whereas the brushes make raking through full manes a quick process.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Advertisement After making landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key, a barrier island in Sarasota County, Milton barreled east with powerful winds and tornadoes that downed trees, snapped power lines, flipped semitrucks and tossed houses off their foundations.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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Noun
The boar bristles add a beautiful shine, while the large ceramic barrel uses ionic technology to create swoon-worthy waves and volume while zapping frizz.
—Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 2 Nov. 2024
The device arrives in a set with seven attachments, though the long barrel wands are our favorite for curling, whereas the brushes make raking through full manes a quick process.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
The naloxone barreled past hair and mucus before sliding between the man’s skin cells.
—Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Advertisement After making landfall as a Category 3 storm near Siesta Key, a barrier island in Sarasota County, Milton barreled east with powerful winds and tornadoes that downed trees, snapped power lines, flipped semitrucks and tossed houses off their foundations.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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The band and their record label added tons of live recordings, new mixes, and other special bits of content that turned the one CD into a box set–the kind that fans of the band couldn’t wait to get their hands on.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Read More Sports Betting Previews on Newsweek Additionally, there are a ton of Bet Boosts available in the bet365 app.Tim van Straten, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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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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In back, a pipe is leaking, damaged when the wall supporting a heater was torn out.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Now, a team of engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help reduce the number of fatbergs that form in sewers.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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As this incremental progress continues, scientists are racing to figure out why some frog species are more susceptible to Bd than others.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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Beyond basic chatbot capabilities, companies are racing to develop more sophisticated AI tools.Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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One balanced chunks of concrete in its metal bucket, and a reporter remarked that encampment residents had surely not been the ones to pour that cement.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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In her bucket of fries is a scroll telling her that a hidden immunity idol is sewn into the corner of the tarp in the middle of the camp.Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Three years later, wildlife experts enlisted a team of local helpers for just 24 hours to speed up the area’s environmental recovery.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Bananas and Tori make this archeological key dig look as easy as finding a poet in Bushwick, speeding off after only a few minutes.Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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More than a dozen Santa Clara alumni and other community leaders served as Opus Prize jurors, and 16 SCU students, faculty and staff members were ambassadors who joined on site visits to the prize finalists.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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Shakira, Bad Bunny, Anitta and Karol G are among the more than two dozen artists nominated for the biggest awards of the night — record of the year, album of the year and song of the year.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
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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
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“Barrel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrel. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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