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Recent Examples of beaker
Cabinets for storage of glassware, and a general clutter of beakers, wiring, and machinery.
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Think of when oil and water are put in a beaker together.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Think of when oil and water are put in a beaker together.
—Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beaker
Noun
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His eyes had rested on a flimsy plastic cup that had been abandoned on the sink, holding ragged lime slices and a slush of ice that was causing little beads of condensation to form on its sides.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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And the Clay problem demands blowup in an infinite fluid—less a cup of coffee, more a boundless sea.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 June 2026
Noun
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John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider for breakfast.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
2 Mar. 2026
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Participants can take part in the town’s stein hoisting contest to see who can hold a full tankard of beer the longest.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For another, just ask any of the smiling stein-cradling kellnerinnen inside the 2,500-seat Hippodrom tent.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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Competitions are planned ranging from a strawberry costume contest to pie eating and beer stein-holding.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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Inspired by Greek mythology and other schools of mysticism, Hecate is a candlelit space meant to savor high-concept, theatrical cocktails that arrive in eccentric goblets and bowls.—
Tanya Edwards,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
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Leave time to check out the Mardi Gras Museum inside the courthouse, which includes more than 800 pieces of Carnival flair, from costumes and goblets to throws and dresses.—
Amanda Ogle,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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It’s served in the chalice-like 1960s Bar Basso glass, paying homage to the iconic Milanese bar where the Sbagliato was created.—
Mariette Williams,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 May 2026
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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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“Beaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaker. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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