container
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Whatever you do, never put a sharps container or loose needles in your recycling bin.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry because of a piece of foam that the astronaut estimates might have weighed about as much as a Styrofoam container.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
We might think of space as an empty container in which things are located.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Potential adversaries will have to consider that any shipping container at an Australian wharf could have a Ghost Shark in it, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Gorringe and his troublemakers have spent the last few months building a huge watertight container, which they will use to tow the obelisk to the harbor.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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"People need to be fully aware of what impact it can have if somebody vandalises a heating containers and tanks."
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Hundreds of native plants thrive in containers smaller than the soil assembled atop the Lucas parking structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Intermodal containers and trailers transported by railroads increased 12.6% from a year earlier in the week ended Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Cool promptly in shallow containers, label and refrigerate.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
It was so nasty crawling around underneath that dumpster picking up tomatoes, ketchup packets,dipping-sauce containers, and half-eaten baked potatoes and chicken tenders, but it was so much fun.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
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