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kettle

noun

Definition of kettlenext
as in basin
a steep-sided hollow without surface drainage especially in a deposit of glacial drift

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Recent Examples of kettle Crusty white deposits forming inside your coffee maker, kettle or water heater are one of the most reliable indicators that hardness is high enough to cause practical problems. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026 That's enough to run an induction cooktop, kettle, coffee machine, lights, laptops and other camping equipment without dragging along a separate generator. — New Atlas, 14 Sep. 2026 Fill a tea kettle or pot with water, and set it to boil on your stove. — Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 22 Aug. 2026 Pause until the fire is lit, and the kettle in the kitchen has long since clicked off. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for kettle
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  1. basin
  2. saddle
  3. pothole
Noun
  • The samples could also provide evidence about how the basin formed and evolved.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Their straight lines ran roughshod across natural drainage basins, leaving some tracts unirrigated.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of basin
Noun
  • Other new arrivals included the Choukara bag inspired by the traditional saddle bags carried by nomadic peoples.
    — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Billy Bob’s Texas Fort Worth Under a spinning rhinestone saddle, dancers can two-step and line dance the night away at this legendary 120,000-square-foot honky-tonk.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of saddle
Noun
  • Filling a pothole matters to the person who drives over it every day, but repeatedly filling the same hole without addressing the underlying street condition is not an effective use of taxpayer dollars.
    — Vince Fattore, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • That led to a surge in pothole requests from mid-April to the end of May, Muhs said.
    — Alison Dirr, jsonline.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of pothole

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“Kettle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kettle. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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