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Recent Examples of tin can
Visitors can play with a tin can telephone or connect to the museum’s general store on a working candlestick phone.
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Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
And as the tension and fear mount, being trapped in a glorified tin can in the North Sea drives the survivors to paranoid extremes.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Ir basically a tin can with as many seats as possible and no distinctive/cool feature.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
From $325 per night. BOOK NOW The Garden House in Alder, Montana
This log cottage maintains its historic feel with vintage quilts, a farm table, tin cans holding kitchen utensils, and its shelves of antiques.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
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Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
And as the tension and fear mount, being trapped in a glorified tin can in the North Sea drives the survivors to paranoid extremes.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Ir basically a tin can with as many seats as possible and no distinctive/cool feature.
—The Athletic Nfl Staff, The Athletic, 29 July 2024
From $325 per night. BOOK NOW The Garden House in Alder, Montana
This log cottage maintains its historic feel with vintage quilts, a farm table, tin cans holding kitchen utensils, and its shelves of antiques.
—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tin can
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Over the past month, M23’s lightning advances have expanded its control over North Kivu province’s lucrative coltan, gold and tin ore mines, uprooting thousands in what was already one of the world’s most dire humanitarian crises.—
Reuters,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Excavations also uncovered two tin weights used for spinning wool and a very rare metal comb used for making clothing, archaeologists said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Abbruzzese, who played drums on the band's first three albums before being fired in 1994, was excluded.—
Troy Smith,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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Photo: Courtesy of Tatiana The Upper West Side has always marched to the beat of its own drum.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Edwin Lyman, the director of nuclear power safety with the Union of Concerned scientists in Washington, D.C., worries the fuel canisters could leak radiation if they're involved in severe crashes during transport, or targeted by terrorists.—
Scott Franz,
NPR,
13 Feb. 2025
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Each canister is supposed to make two liters of water, and the math works out to about $1 per liter of sparkling water, which is more than the 50 cents or so per liter of a regular soda maker’s tank.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appétit,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Tin can.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin%20can. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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