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Recent Examples of hodEmployer Job title Member grade Alma mater So, later that year, the underweight teen got a job on a construction site carrying heavy loads of building materials in a hod, a three-sided wooden trough.—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026 When the boss brings up a subject, like the possibility of recession, subordinates will simply nod their hods.—Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 The gross from this third frame was $57.8M for a strong hod at -48%.—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024 Price at time of publish: $15 Maine Garden Hod Basket
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This gardening hod is a practical and stylish way to harvest fruits, vegetables, herbs, and more.—Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2023 For Alabama, the Tide remains at 25 commitments with a strong hod on the top class.—Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 14 Dec. 2022 This traditional harvest basket, also known as a hod, is used to hose off produce before bringing it inside.—Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 26 Oct. 2022 After a red-hod start in the first half, The Pelicans (27-22) once again had their night spoiled by a third-quarter lull that allowed the Clippers to come back from a double-digit deficit.—William Guillory, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
Leaphorn yanks the jug his way (despite being cuffed) and is able to put the filter packet down his pants.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Apr. 2026
Some of us virtuously recycle items that will be transported across the world to smother island nations in single-use plastic bags and water bottles, milk jugs, yogurt tubs, pet food and potato chip bags, Styrofoam meat trays, Coke bottles, Amazon mailing envelopes, and fast-food wrappers.
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Caroline Fraser,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
The system diverts stormwater into a giant tank and then, at Fourteenth Street, pumps it out at up to three hundred and fifty million gallons a day, sending it on to the Newtown Creek wastewater facility.
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Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Bahrain’s Bapco Energy is confirming a tank fire at one of their storage facilities as a result of Iranian drone attacks.
Also in the 1990s, physicists in Russia and Italy had put highly radioactive sources right next to huge vats of gallium, a metallic liquid that’s especially sensitive to neutrinos, to test whether the vats were working as neutrino detectors.
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Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Apr. 2026
Signs educate guests on the process of how the agave is fermented with yeast in large tanks and wooden vats.
Five pitchers combined for nine strikeouts and allowed just hits for Andrew (4-3).
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Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
This team is improved, has a deeper roster, no longer pretends Kris Bryant is a major league player and features more functional pitchers (No, seriously).
These are Chinese, of course, and are made by coating duck eggs in a paste of salt, wood ash, lime, and black tea and burying them among rice husks in huge ceramic jars for 100 days.
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Jeffrey Steingarten,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
Once cool, transfer grenadine to a jar with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate up to 7 days.