mason
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Pour the slices into a mason jar or glass container and mash with a fork.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
A lot of people do mason jars but, because pop tops are square, you can fit more in a space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
It was built by a master mason called Robert MacMillan Clive, who was my great-grandfather.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
One response sent him to Douglas, who had written on Reddit that her father, Cliff, a professional mason, was volunteering to remove tiles from ruined homes for free.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
He picks up a frosted-glass mason jar and unscrews the silver metal lid.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Kajal's brothers worked as masons in Moradabad town.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Finding enough skilled masons was the group’s first challenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Bamouyi Trao Traoré, one of Djenné’s lead masons, says they work as a team from the very start.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Meanwhile masons and carpenters were at work building a large and stately new boathouse, Haus West, just east of the permanent grandstands, supplementing two large existing boathouses, Haus Mitte and Haus Ost.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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The tracery windows on the south side are masoned up, but much of the original tracery remains.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various
So, in the end, I masoned up my lockers and pantries; and save the two used for mittens, the white jacket ever after was pocketless.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.
From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis
He stopped up the two doors which communicated with the aisles of the church, and the two which opened into the chancel, and which, though visible, still remain masoned up.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various
Each house had a paved “stoep” in front, with a masoned seat at either end.
From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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