contain
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That anecdote tells you a great deal about This Music May Contain Hope, a concept album about overcoming heartbreak and self-doubt and internet trolls and stupid men.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Appeared in the March 5, 2026, print edition as 'An Urgent Need to Contain Turkey'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
I love that recent song of his, “I Contain Multitudes.”
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024
Contain it on a smaller scale with slightly less world-ending stakes than the bombastic, globe-trotting core films.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2023
In the simpler case of lexical ambiguity, an individual word has two meanings, as in the headlines Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted and New Vaccine May Contain Rabies.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing contain
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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