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mug

[muhg] / mʌg /


VERB
hold up
Synonyms


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“If someone is from a city we have, we give them that mug, or if they’ve traveled to that city we swap stories and memories,” the finance executive from Pennsylvania says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

I’m sipping coffee out of my “embarrassing” Starbucks mug as I write this and thinking about the climb up the Arc de Triomphe with my daughter on her first visit last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

They presented him with a special gift - a "thank you" mug with a photo of his skydive so he can remember it every time he has a cup of tea.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

A walrus with a mug of tea recalls, “I used to be pathologically accommodating. I’d make other people a priority and myself optional.”

From Salon Jun. 27, 2026

He set a steaming mug in front of Mom, rested his empty hand on her shoulder, and kissed the top of her head.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

It’s a passionate defense of cheesy souvenirs based on all of your responses to my post about collecting Starbucks mugs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

“We’re selling these five, and people can take the copyright and put them on coffee mugs, or make an AI movie, or whatever they want to do with them,” O’Meara said, laughing.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Others have posted videos and photos on social media of themselves breaking Starbucks mugs.

From Barron's May 26, 2026

And a few months later, in November of that year, £354.70 was shelled out on an assortment of Le Creuset espresso and cappuccino mugs in the space of just four days.

From BBC May 25, 2026

"Could you be a sweetie and make three mugs?"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The pervasive threat is a constant topic of conversation in a way that crime was when I was growing up: who had been mugged, whose apartment had been robbed, whose car had been stolen.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 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

Bovino mostly mugged for the cameras, like the time he oversaw an invasion of an emptied MacArthur Park in July with the National Guard parked on Wilshire Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2025

He was a tall, confident man in his forties who walked the streets wearing expensive suits and alligator shoes but was never mugged.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

She admitted telling police in 2013 she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging, but later found it had not been taken.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Too often, it looked like a regulatory mugging of children with rare diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 17, 2026

Cut to the same man now mugging for the camera on a plane ride out of the United States.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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