thermos
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“It brings back memories of hunkering down behind an old cottonwood drift log…drinking black coffee from a Stanley thermos and waiting for mallards to whistle by,” he mused on Facebook, where he does his campaigning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Add coffee, whether that’s hot in a thermos, iced in a travel mug or purchased from a nearby café on the way to the park, and you’re done.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
The base fits in cupholders; the handle makes it easier to sip from a heavy thermos while multitasking.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024
The thermos still sells on the Stanley website for $36.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The only familiar sound had been water running through garden hoses when he’d filled his thermos.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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Someone could usually be counted on to bring ice cream from the shop down the street, and I encouraged everyone to bring plastic tubs or thermoses for leftovers.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
They brought books, knitting, thermoses of coffee or something more muscular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Millennial women stocked up on the Stanley thermoses their dads used to use, one of a range of female-powered consumer fads.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
It was a cool fall morning and families sat on blankets or newspapers in the grass, passing around thermoses of tea.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2022
At twilight, the refugees gather with their blankets, rice pots, plates of fish, thermoses of tea, and eat noisily as the movie begins.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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