tin
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The team found that the tin telluride film is compressed by the underlying substrate, creating strain that is essential for stabilizing the material's topological state.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Ben Harrison, founder of a Gloucestershire solar panel installation firm, said his crews are "like cats on a hot tin roof".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
A staffer for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered a Kennedy aide a tobacco pouch from a custom gold tin at a dinner in Washington this spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The unspoken truth about the whole snack tin craze is that it’s restriction disguised as mindful eating.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
He took a swig from the tin canteen James had given him.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
It features on everything from whisky bottles to biscuit tins - and even appeared in the hit US show Schitt's Creek.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
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
Frustrated by traditional candle formats, he launched a line of portable candles packaged in small, tuna-like tins designed to make “home follow you wherever you go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
“In the supermarket I can feed a cat thirty-two dinners from one of thirty-two tins, but I can never find a single fish I like, never a single.”
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Olives, hams and sausages, tinned seafood, fresh loaves, classic Spanish cheeses.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
The shop, based in premises leased from the Royal British Legion, sells fresh and tinned food, alongside household goods at low prices, with no judgement.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Donna, who used to work in the military but now works in education, stores water, tinned food, freeze-dried food, tea, coffee, powdered milk and a first aid kit.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
She has cultivated a down-to-earth image, posting photos on social media of her meal of tinned mackerel on rye bread and cleaning windows at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
By then I had grown fat on tinned milk formula.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
Meanwhile U. S. cattlemen will not feel the new British demand until U. S. packers can get tinning capacity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
First will come hot and cold rolling mills and a tinning operation, which will cost a total of $89.8 million and have an annual capacity of 555,000 tons.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Come in,” she called, tinning her face toward the door.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
