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tin

[tin] / tɪn /


NOUN
package
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Customers receive a tin of Fishwife tuna to add to the salad themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Certainly the music played a big part, the children busking on every spare square of pavement, a joyful cacophony of tin whistle, fiddle, bodhrán.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

"We use copper and tin and one more ingredient which is secret. Even though it's in very small quantities, it gives the cymbal a different character in terms of consistency and sound," he told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Refrigerate the muffin tin for 10 minutes, or until the pastry feels cold and firm.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

My sisters gave us an elegant lunch—meaning our meat came from a tin instead of the slaughter shed—on a clean tablecloth in the apartment they shared three stories above the street.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

As well as offering the few tins it had secured as a prize for its readers, it reported that thanks to “quiet diplomacy” between the magazine and AB Foods, negotiations are advancing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Across the city in a suburb of Beirut, kitchen shelves were stacked with sauces and tins crowded the walls as volunteers prepared green beans and fried rice balls.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

Bright teardrop earrings hang from metal tins filled with Japanese cooling beads.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

Anastasia, who has a background in banking and is trained in holistic coaching, also uses the opportunity to promote her Snack Tin Guide, which teaches people how to stash their personal itty-bitty snack tins.

From Salon May 17, 2026

From under tables appeared writing paper, books, knitting yarn, tins of biscuits.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Keep foods like dried and canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, olive oil, and a variety of whole grains on hand so you always have something to cook with.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

Everton made league history when Hafnia, a Danish tinned meat company, was the first sponsor to appear on a shirt, followed days later by Liverpool, who had signed up with Japanese electronics firm Hitachi.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Last year, Rainbow Tomatoes Garden, a family-owned business that claims to offer the world’s largest online selection of tinned fish, paused shipping of its salt-cured anchovy fillets.

From Salon May 28, 2026

She also watches food trends - the sardine tin claw clip is because tinned fish is having a moment.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2026

She tinned her board to fly away, but the machine lifted up into the air, passing right over her, and suddenly the wind was too great.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

After the war in 1922, he bought the business of J. Lesher & Son and dealt in plumbing, heating, roof tinning, spouting and stoves.

From Washington Times Nov. 17, 2018

All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped make tinned meat a part of the British diet; through its public lectures, it introduced the nation to such modern wonders as the Edison phonograph.

From Time Magazine Archive

He estimated his process would be a third cheaper than tinning.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Come in,” she called, tinning her face toward the door.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin




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