canteen

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Recent Examples of canteen At the back of a buzzy canteen, there are a pair of meeting spaces, whose names revolve with the latest academy players to have started a Premier League game for Newcastle. George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025 Bring your fastest tubes and maybe some cocoa in a canteen, too. Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 9 Oct. 2025 His backpack had ripped open in the fall, and several belongings — including his cell phone and water canteen — were gone. Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025 The sandwich, featuring ground meat—generally beef—suspended in a thick, sweet tomatoey sauce, has become an avatar of the horrible school lunch, a cliché that tends to go along with hairnets, greasy aprons, and other elements of canteen grotesquerie. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for canteen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canteen
Noun
  • The community includes a pool, walking trails and green space, and elevators in the clubhouse and three residential buildings.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Vitello, 47, faces the unique challenge of winning the respect of a clubhouse full of major leaguers having never played or coached at any professional level himself.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Affected bottles were sold in gallon jugs with red plastic lids, according to the FDA.
    Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The room also had a small sink fed by a five-gallon jug of water suspended above it, a two-burner camp stove, some shelving for clothes and books, and a car battery hooked up to a small solar panel outside.
    Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Kendricks spoke Wednesday at his locker directly across from Fred Warner, the four-time All-Pro who sustained a right-ankle fracture three months ago and is working toward an improbable comeback should the 49ers reach the NFC Championship round.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Some Georgia districts are already using locking pouches, but schools could also just tell students to leave their phone in their locker, to turn them in to a teacher, or disable them using an online application.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Since then, scientists have been in two camps, championing conflicting theories on the thickness of Europa's ice shell.
    Julian Dossett, Space.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Peet’s Coffee was founded by Dutch immigrant Alfred Peet, a German labor-camp survivor whose family had run a coffee-roasting business.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This also includes heated blankets, coffee makers, and water kettles.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Here was a clear case of the pot calling the kettle atramentous.
    Hermione Hoby, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Some infections also lead to respiratory symptoms like cough and abnormal chest X-rays.
    Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Shane was baby-faced and short, and couldn’t grow proper facial hair, and barely had any chest hair.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Grab pre-dinner drinks—and admire sweeping ocean views—at the stylish Sunset Bar, which boasts a casual country club-esque ambience.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Lodestar would use about 19 acres of the roughly 190-acre former country club, which is now owned by Simsbury Real Estate Holdings LLC.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His oldest brother, Grant Weinmann, was a standout pitcher for Lowell and earned a walk-on spot at Louisville.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Dodgers who plan to play in the WBC include World Series heroes Will Smith of Team USA and pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto of Team Japan.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026

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“Canteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canteen. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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