container
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The four firms allegedly conspired to roughly double container prices between 2019 and 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The 26 hatched chicks were grown from fertilized tissue transferred from hen’s eggs into the new container, which functioned essentially as an incubator.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Customers can return the empty container to designated return points, situated in places including local shops and supermarkets.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Giant container ships ply sea lanes skirting the archipelago's southern tip, where roughly a third of global maritime trade transits between Asia, Africa, the Gulf and the Red Sea.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
When I was recovering from the surgery in the hospital, she visited me with a bouquet of flowers and a plastic container filled with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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