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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cisterns
vats
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It was kept in interconnected wooden vats that were periodically filled with rums of various origins, but never completely emptied, making it effectively an enormous and complex solera rum.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Featuring enough blood that the ballet company purchases at least two massive vats of fake blood?—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Cisterns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cisterns. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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