as in jug
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout
please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table
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Recent Examples of pitcher
Cut the okra into ½-inch slices, then add them to a pitcher.
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2024
The missing pitchers account for $40.5 million worth of LA’s $339.8 million payroll—the second highest in MLB.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Read more The Dodgers are one win away from World Series domination
The Dodgers lead this World Series 3-0, with Game 4 Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium, a contest that could end in a big, blue dogpile at the pitcher's mound.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Baseball fans were tickled this year when Seattle Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo placed his sunflower seeds in the dirt in an ornate arrangement that possibly represented some kind of message to extraterrestrials.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2024
The missing pitchers account for $40.5 million worth of LA’s $339.8 million payroll—the second highest in MLB.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Read more The Dodgers are one win away from World Series domination
The Dodgers lead this World Series 3-0, with Game 4 Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium, a contest that could end in a big, blue dogpile at the pitcher's mound.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Baseball fans were tickled this year when Seattle Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo placed his sunflower seeds in the dirt in an ornate arrangement that possibly represented some kind of message to extraterrestrials.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitcher
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Bring gloves, utility scissors and a clean milk jug.Staff report, Chicago Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
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Councell tapped a plastic jug the size of a garden shed containing sugar water, nearby another full of corn syrup.Bill Weir, CNN, 12 Dec. 2022
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Note: To halve this recipe use 3 cups broth, ½ cup pasta, 2 eggs and 2 lemons.Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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Starbucks has released a new holiday cup collection as the company kicks off the fall season this month.Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
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After receiving information from this informant, authorities were able to test Gonzalez’s DNA against the Gatorade bottle and airbags in the car, when Gonzalez was arrested in an unrelated car theft investigation last April, according to court records.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Fast forward to 2019 when Zachary Joseph and Andrew English purchased the rights to the distillery name and partnered with Troy LeBlanc to source and bottle whiskeys under the labels once produced at the old distillery.Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2024
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Among these are an Indo-Portuguese brass and mother-of-pearl ewer from the early 17th century, and Carolina’s favorite: a portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, a daughter of a large, upper-class Spanish family.Caitie Kelly Kin Woo Kate Guadagnino Nicole DeMarco Megan O’Sullivan, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
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No detail was overlooked — down to the drink’s flagon.Violet Goldstone, WWD, 12 Sep. 2024
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Their crop: wine, so fine the poet Dante sang its praises and medieval kings and popes guzzled it by the flagon.Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
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“Pitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitcher. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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