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Recent Examples of pail
Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense.
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Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
Use your hand to brush away excess soil and place the bulbs in a garden pail.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
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Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
Use your hand to brush away excess soil and place the bulbs in a garden pail.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
—Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
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Essentially, each state gets its own bucket, noted Dr. Mujeeb Basit, a modeling expert on disease spread who wasn’t involved with the new research.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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Funds to prevent people from becoming homeless, for example, are spread over all three buckets of money.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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