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Recent Examples of pail
Hot water for coffee dangled in a metal pail.
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Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Burger King has its own pail for fans landing sooner than McDonald’s.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
The decorative pails, which replace the classic Happy Meal box, have returned periodically in the years since their launch.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
Foreshadowing the Future One of the young coaches present when Foster first introduced the pail was graduate assistant Brent Pry.
—Christina Daves, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
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Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
Burger King has its own pail for fans landing sooner than McDonald’s.
—Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
The decorative pails, which replace the classic Happy Meal box, have returned periodically in the years since their launch.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 1 Oct. 2025
Foreshadowing the Future One of the young coaches present when Foster first introduced the pail was graduate assistant Brent Pry.
—Christina Daves, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
bucket
Noun
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Rice and liquid sanitizer were stored in the same five-gallon bucket.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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Inmates slept one to a cell and urinated in buckets.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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