mug
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The former first minister also told a podcast she would not visit Peter Murrell, 61, in prison and she felt like a "mug" for continuing to care about him.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Her post included a mug shot of the now-leader of the Crystal River school in an orange jumpsuit.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
So to all you souvenir snobs, put that in your Starbucks mug and drink it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
He manipulates mechanical arms remotely, using hand and arm sensors to make them pick up a pot of coffee, pour it into a mug and put the pot back in the coffee maker.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
When Mom came back, she put the coffee in the cupboard but left her mug on the counter and said she needed to lie down for a bit.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
I don’t use my Starbucks mugs to entertain, but that’s the only time Michael Sullivan and his husband pull them off the shelf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
And then I just like to sit in silence while it’s still dark out, while sipping two mugs of coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
"Australia will not let the social media giants take us for mugs."
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
And they said that efforts to offer things like comfier seats and ceramic mugs in its coffee shops might not attract younger customers.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
Soon they all held steaming mugs of hot milk, and Green and the blubber stove were brought back on board.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Spencer Pratt wasn’t mugged by reality, but it literally burned his house down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Also: What kind of dingus gets mugged on Fifth Avenue?
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Ultrapure-water projects are big, one-off beasts that everybody and his brother wants to build, so even the smart operators can watch their margins get mugged the minute capital spending gets a head cold.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Victims who bought cars and vans with clocked mileage say they feel "mugged off" by the fraudsters who wound back a total of 2,000,000 miles off vehicle odometers.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
While Mr. Lemoncello mugged for the camera, Miguel turned to his teammates.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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Outside in the streets, the cosplayers enjoyed mugging for the cameras or taking selfies and laughing at themselves and others while interacting with their favorite celebrities.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
After that earlier Warner mugging, I wrote about the “legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
But there’s something deeply strange about his performance here, grinning and mugging with childlike wonder in a way that can only be read as disingenuous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
The UK government’s foreign travel advice says crime levels are relatively low in Rwanda, but there are cases of burglary, theft, bag-snatching and mugging in Kigali.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2024
He presses one shoulder into the wall, crosses his arms, cocks his head, squints his eyes, mugging James Dean better than James Dean.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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