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Recent Examples of canister
Palm-sized plastic canisters of the product are lined up in neat rows on the counter.
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Rachel Hale, USA Today, 20 May 2026
The 6-month-old was in his family’s car when a tear gas canister rolled underneath it, and the 12- and 17-year-olds were in their respective homes.
—Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
The next day she is shipped off to her first job, also within the confines of this impossibly vast building, which involves shoving film canisters down a pneumatic tube.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
In the filing, attorneys maintained that the clinic followed all standards of care and that the artist’s death was caused not by Xanax, but by his inhalation of difluoroethane from canisters.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
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Rachel Hale, USA Today, 20 May 2026
The 6-month-old was in his family’s car when a tear gas canister rolled underneath it, and the 12- and 17-year-olds were in their respective homes.
—Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
The next day she is shipped off to her first job, also within the confines of this impossibly vast building, which involves shoving film canisters down a pneumatic tube.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
In the filing, attorneys maintained that the clinic followed all standards of care and that the artist’s death was caused not by Xanax, but by his inhalation of difluoroethane from canisters.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for canister
Noun
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Prices of West Texas Intermediate futures are now below $90 a barrel, sliding 2% on Friday to around $87 per barrel.—
Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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These materials are capable of causing corrosive damage to barrels, storage tanks and other metal containers.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Hanging aluminum pie tins is one way to utilize flash and noise.—
Molly Burford,
Southern Living,
6 June 2026
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The tins will be available in France, Germany and Australia.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
Noun
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There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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To create Ranjha, Ben Tzur worked with the same team as 2015’s Junun, with the addition of the Smile’s Tom Skinner on drums.—
Arman Khan,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Offense was the name of the game to start with both teams trading buckets.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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The Knicks have been hustling up-and-down the court, and it's led to some early buckets.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
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“Canister.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canister. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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