container
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Seventeen hours later they were rescued by a container ship.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
That’s right: Oprah Winfrey persuaded her followers to buy a cylindrical glass container holding paper and air, for $45.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
Seiler placed them in a semi-sealed steel container with very little oxygen and heated them in a high-temperature furnace in his home laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
As crews successfully stabilized the initial container, an adjacent 250-kilowatt container then started to overheat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Totally disgusted, Jeremy pulled one of the chicken livers out of the container and threw it across the room.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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In Bang Kapi locals used ice-boxes and other floating plastic containers to cart supplies from nearby markets and supermarkets, AFP reporters saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The La Verne blaze began shortly before noon Tuesday inside one of four 250-kilowatt-battery containers at the Metropolitan Water District’s facility on Wheeler Avenue, according to the La Verne Fire Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Instead, he wants to make something smaller that could generate about 10 megawatts of electricity, be manufactured faster with cheaper materials and be transported in shipping containers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
This isn’t about optimizing every meal, spending three hours prepping identical containers or constructing the sort of Sunday routine that makes you feel behind when you inevitably skip it.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
There are nine perfect yogurt containers lined up on the refrigerator shelf.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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