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jar

[jahr] / dʒɑr /






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The detainees said an 8 oz. jar of Folgers instant coffee costs $18 at the California City facility, a single instant ramen soup is 75 cents and a box of 40 tampons costs nearly $21.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Claire Salinda: Your composition captures flowers, chamoy and other candies and fruit sumptuously arranged in and around a ceramic jar from LACMA’s permanent collection.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

They’re an invitation to save the pickle juice, embrace the capers and discover just how much life can be hiding in the bottom of a jar.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

Like the large so-called moon jar that opens the exhibition, these capacious bowls glazed in eggshell white flaunt their foibles with wobbling edges that give character to otherwise pure forms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

I had to stuff the jar of raki and the packet of cherry paste under the bundles of wool on the pack mule in order to yank on Rostam’s harness with both hands.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri




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