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Recent Examples of canisters
It's powered by standard butane, propane and butane/propane mix gas canisters, and Fire Maple recommends the butane/propane mix for the best performance in cold weather.
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New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2025
The size of these canisters, with an inner diameter of just 220 millimeters, is designed to maintain sub-criticality.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
The seminar will include a review of inspections done on the canisters at San Onofre’s storage sites.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
It's become a popular party and rave drug, distributed in balloons or canisters, where they're called whippets.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Federal agents responded with chemical crowd control munitions, including tear gas canisters and less-lethal guns that sprayed pepper balls.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Alejandra's arms are full of fuel canisters.
—Teri Schultz, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Protesters were met with gas canisters and pepper pellets, Fox 32 reported.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
If readings reach dangerous levels, astronauts can construct a makeshift radiation shield inside Orion, fortifying themselves between the spacecraft's heatshield and water storage canisters, both of which are better at absorbing penetrating radiation than other onboard materials.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2025
The size of these canisters, with an inner diameter of just 220 millimeters, is designed to maintain sub-criticality.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
The seminar will include a review of inspections done on the canisters at San Onofre’s storage sites.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
It's become a popular party and rave drug, distributed in balloons or canisters, where they're called whippets.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Federal agents responded with chemical crowd control munitions, including tear gas canisters and less-lethal guns that sprayed pepper balls.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Alejandra's arms are full of fuel canisters.
—Teri Schultz, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Protesters were met with gas canisters and pepper pellets, Fox 32 reported.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
If readings reach dangerous levels, astronauts can construct a makeshift radiation shield inside Orion, fortifying themselves between the spacecraft's heatshield and water storage canisters, both of which are better at absorbing penetrating radiation than other onboard materials.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canisters
Noun
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Without access to many kitchen supplies, the women improvised, using wine bottles and shell casings as rolling pins and baking soda tins as cutters.—
Laura Daniella Sepulveda,
AZCentral.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The pantry is stacked with corroding tins and stoneware jugs nailed into position with wooden dowels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Price contends the Jameson portion of the USGS report is outdate and inaccurate, pointing to a much more recent 2025 third-party review from Sproule ERCE energy consultants that estimates the Jameson basin could hold 9 billion net barrels of recoverable crude oil.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Orange construction barrels are seemingly everywhere.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In 2019, city employees began hanging about 500 trick-or-treat pumpkin buckets in the trees on Main Street every October.—
Elliott Harrell,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Oct. 2025
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Health inspectors cited the soul food restaurant after discovering that the kitchen handwashing sink was blocked with multiple plastic buckets in the sink basin.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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His playing has now come to be an omen of danger, so visitors who hear drums playing should be wary.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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In 1977, Rivers first began playing music in middle school, beginning with tuba because his friend, future Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto, played jazz drums.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Canisters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canisters. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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