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pottery

[pot-uh-ree] / ˈpɒt ə ri /
NOUN
containers made from clay; clay art
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Samar Karam, in charge of archaeological sites in north Lebanon, said a Roman-era olive press was found on private property along with pottery weights and items for textile production.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

Investors went ga-ga over industrial agglomerations for tin, oil, electric utilities, flour, furniture, copper, pottery, leather, borax, oatmeal, even coffins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Instead of the smaller pot's smooth surface, the larger vessel was rough, and its material does not appear to match established local pottery traditions.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Other artefacts found there included pottery, animal bones and oyster shells.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Our species, Homo sapiens, appeared 200,000 years ago, and pottery dates back to around 25,000 years ago.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Stoneware potteries, coal mines, and steel mills mostly died off to be replaced by refineries, hazardous waste incinerators, unconventional gas wells, and petrochemical facilities.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023

Sometime after the Emancipation Proclamation, he relocated to Texas, where he worked in potteries formed by other freedmen from Edgefield.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022

A range of jubilee teacups, mugs, plates and pillboxes is being produced in Stoke-on-Trent, England, where potteries have been making royal commemorative ware for generations.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022

The area that is now Aiken County had some valuable assets such as textile mills, a railroad, the Savannah River port town of Hamburg and potteries.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2021

The combination of these two processes had never been effected before, and it would be difficult on that account to find any connection between stoneware and some of the Egyptian potteries.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux




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