Thesaurus results for CONTAINER

container

noun

kən-ˈtā-nər

Definition of container

as in bin

something into which a liquid or smaller objects can be put for storage or transportation save the plastic containers from the deli for other uses

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Recent Examples of container Amazon has prefabricated pools made from shipping containers, fiberglass, and other durable materials. — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 The leak-proof, puncture-resistant container should then be thrown in the trash, not recycled or flushed down a toilet. — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Cover the cut area with plastic wrap, or put them securely in an airtight container to keep bacteria at bay. — Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2026 The service remains limited in scale, with just over eight voyages planned this season, but China analyst Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital that its significance goes beyond the number of containers currently making the journey. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for container

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Noun

To get bin and lot numbers baked into 2D barcodes, a unique label may need to be printed on site, or packages with those identifiers would need to be pre-printed and shipped to particular locations.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Stackable bins keep products grouped and prevent shelves from getting cluttered.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of bin

Noun

Fairphone also sells a few accessories, including a case, a lanyard, and alternative back panels with a card holder or a finger loop.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026
If these models create songs, and those songs make money, where was the value created and what compensation system makes sense between the original music rights holders, the AI company, and the users of the AI models?

— Charlotte Isidore, NPR, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of holder

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Panettiere’s boyfriend, identified as Brian Hickerson, showed responding officers a bag of her medications, according to a police report, which was heavily redacted.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
Royal Oak Public Library now has a policy prohibiting shopping carts and large bags from being brought inside the library.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of bag

Noun

There is nothing worse than finding yourself the receptacle for someone’s bad energy, and Kat feels overwhelmed enough to bring it up with Kayley.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2026
The ruins featured an elaborate system of water channels hewn from some three hundred tons of rock, running between a sculpture of a jaguar (or possibly a toad) and an enormous stone receptacle in the shape of a duck.

— Kimon de Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of receptacle

Noun

Most vessels were flagged from Panama (7) and Liberia (6), with none from the United States.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
Unmanned vessel demonstrates missile capability The demonstration was conducted under the US Navy’s Fleet Experimentation Program during RIMPAC, the world’s largest international naval exercise.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of vessel

Noun

If cave paintings tell the stories of the earliest human life, factices — the once-ubiquitous oversized perfume bottle replicas — play a similar role in revealing the histories of fragrance.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Patients should put any items in a leak-proof, puncture-resistant container, such as a laundry detergent bottle.

— Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of bottle

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