vat
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Behind the glass of a sterile room, two employees in full protective suits could be seen extracting an insulin component from a large vat to send a test sample to a customer.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
The justices don’t care what you’re doing out there on the plaza; they are just brains in a vat.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
Since then, Zhan's body has been stored in a 2,000-litre container at the institute in a vat of -190C liquid nitrogen.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
The real-estate investor took off her shoes, sanitized her feet and waded into a giant vat filled to the brim with juicy grapes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Jill asks, poking her head around the corner from where she’s making a big vat of sauce.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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Giant, stainless-steel mixing tanks and vats, on their sides, tanning in the Florida sun.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
He’s one of the last brewers to use an ancient method of fermenting in wooden vats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
He kept saying that our soy sauce couldn’t be made without this storehouse, its earthen walls, earthen floors and wooden vats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
The room itself is about the size of a football pitch, and home to row after row of huge metal vats within which chemical reactions force the different rare earths apart.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
Huge wooden vats lined the walls as far as the prince could see.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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These whiskies, which used to be called vatted malts, can be wonderful and complex.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
Michael was right about that port; there’s old and vatted for you!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
I sat by the doors that were slatted And the stuff had a surf like the sea— No vintage was anywhere vatted Too strong for ventripotent me!
From In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Haley, Bart
If you don’t want to taste what you eat, you let ’em hand you a free bottle of pure California claret, vatted on East Houston-st.
From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell
We sat down, a considerable company, to dinner, most of us fine old vatted English tories of that class which is often so enthusiastic as to be inarticulate.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
"Here, vatting," he said, "every thing is in it, the certificate of birth, the enlistment paper, the discharge, and the other thing."
From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Here the moon by night is distilling and vatting mountain dew from which all wild creatures may drink deep without fear of deleterious effects.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
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