bull pens

plural of bull pen

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Noun
  • Boomers stayed in the workforce longer than expected, retired later, and held on to big houses as starter homes disappeared beneath them.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 June 2026
  • However, a lot of big houses have been built on smallish lots.
    Richard Dahlberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In May, at the manufacturing facility, which stores thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals in pressurized tanks used to produce materials such as plexiglass for fighter jet and commercial aircraft windows, one tank threatened to leak or explode.
    Nilesh Christopher, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • But faced with the quantity and quality of Soviet tanks in the East, and British-American tanks in the West, the tank’s purpose became the achievement of total battlefield supremacy.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Given their recent debut on the battlefield, Israel hasn’t yet come up with a proper response, often leaving unit commanders to improvise solutions of varying effectiveness, such as mounting netting or cages on vehicles.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2026
  • Indeterminate tomatoes need strong stakes, cages, or trellises for support due to their continuous growth and vining habit.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Essentially, this transition marks the point where our cells are set up with the precursors required for organ formation, one of the most critical events in human development.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 June 2026
  • Hotel rooms are converted from former prison cells.
    Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Injection pens for the weight loss treatment Wegovy, manufactured by Novo Nordisk A/S, on display during a news conference in Mumbai, India, June 24, 2025.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The Nazis, three years in power, had begun operating Germany’s first concentration camps.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Daniel Oren, 18, of Hollywood, has always felt a special connection to his great-grandfather, who survived by hiding out in the forest and escaping concentration camps.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Inside one of those flip-top coolers, raw shell eggs measured 59 degrees, 18 degrees above maximum for proper food safety.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • The event included coolers full of beer and, apparently, grape soda; umbrellas in case of additional rain; for some reason, an inflatable hot dog; and, as Ebra points out, cocaine.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • Behind bars in state penitentiaries in Gatesville and Marlin, Mejia felt forgotten.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
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“Bull pens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bull%20pens. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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