drawer
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And then there was MapQuest — another artifact safely filed away in the same early-2000s drawer as Freedom Fries — which announced, simply, “We’re not changing it.”
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
King Slide Works makes components like cabinet hinges and drawer slides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Rare dinosaur bone, stuck in a drawer for decades.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Elon Musk probably has a T-shirt in the back of a drawer emblazoned with the line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
We blinked, and some of us remembered the snake in the drawer.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Since retiring, we have settled into a slow-and-steady approach to downsizing, habitually scrutinizing drawers and closets and storage boxes anytime we open them, looking around rooms for little things to pass along.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Inside the workshop are various drawers and boxes labelled "teeth"or "eyeballs".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
No pet dragons, though — just a baby unicorn, representing the fantasy mascot ruling many of that era’s pre-teen accessory drawers.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Chatrie asks whether the Constitution still remembers that lesson once the rummaging happens through data instead of drawers.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
Next, she sat at the desk and looked through the drawers.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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