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Recent Examples of beaker
Inside a single-story brick building in Sorrento Mesa is a small lab sprinkled with beakers, test tubes and incubators that is worth billions of dollars.
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Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
Drink options include the Green Dread – a bright green gin concoction served from a beaker – and the Bloodsucker, a rum and blackberry liqueur drink served with a dollop of dark red jello meant to look like a glob of blood.
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
On the plate were a couple of horned beakers of water and small pieces of bread.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 June 2025
He was dismayed to discover that an awful lot of the job involved moving beakers from one table to another.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2025
Drink options include the Green Dread – a bright green gin concoction served from a beaker – and the Bloodsucker, a rum and blackberry liqueur drink served with a dollop of dark red jello meant to look like a glob of blood.
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
On the plate were a couple of horned beakers of water and small pieces of bread.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 June 2025
He was dismayed to discover that an awful lot of the job involved moving beakers from one table to another.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beaker
Noun
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The average cup of joe is now less caffeine fix and more wellness ritual.—
Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2026
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In bras, those band sizes of 42+ and cup sizes of D are losing market share, while midrange and smaller sizes including band size 40 and B and C cups are gaining share, the company found.—
Melissa Repko,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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When that got a laugh, Gorsuch went on a brief tour of the drinking habits of the Founding Fathers: John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast every day.—
Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
12 Mar. 2026
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John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider for breakfast.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
2 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Competitions are planned ranging from a strawberry costume contest to pie eating and beer stein-holding.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Enjoy it with a stein of German beer.—
USA TODAY NETWORK,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The goblet style offers a subtle twist on the pinch pleat, creating a slightly more decorative look at the top of the panel.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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To round out the Mary Kay sensibility—beauty without eros—big earners received diamond bumblebee pins, golden goblets, and birthstone rings.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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With the dead and the wounded sprawled around them, the mocambos gulped the wine from the sacramental chalice.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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Mulvihill was the keeper of the trophy: the Van Nostrand Challenge Cup, a silver chalice with wintry sailing scenes in bas-relief.—
Ben McGrath,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Beaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaker. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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