cauldrons

plural of cauldron
as in kettles
a large open container that is usually used for cooking They filled the cauldron with what seemed like an endless amount of clams.

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Recent Examples of cauldrons As social flying mammals, bats typically live in colonies (or cauldrons) of up to 100 individual bats. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025 Researchers also came across seven iron cannons, along with copper cauldrons and rope. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Unsurprisingly, the brewing bar in each room is impressive, with different roasts of Geisha and other varieties, and all the highly specific kettles, grinders and other paraphernalia found in serious cupping rooms.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Thick limescale inside others revealed they were likely used to boil water, functioning as ancient kettles.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 10 Aug. 2025
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  • The best, and possibly easiest option, is to plant multiple pots at one week intervals.
    Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There is a world where O’Connor would run away and go missing, get back to his garden in the West of England, make pots, and not do any acting for a long time.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Balanced buckets The Valkyries got scoring from multiple players.
    Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
  • As the morning light spread across the San Francisco Peaks, a group of about 50 volunteers from across Arizona gathered in the national forest, armed with shovels and buckets of young pine trees.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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