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Recent Examples of pails
Barrels were rolled out to the airplane and gas transferred to our tanks in open pails.
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Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
First introduced in 1986, the pails replace the standard Happy Meal box and can be used for trick-or-treating.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
The right diapers and creams are a godsend for cleanup, while easy-to-wipe down changing pads and diaper pails make nighttimes a little more seamless.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
First introduced in 1986, the pails replace the standard Happy Meal box and can be used for trick-or-treating.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
The right diapers and creams are a godsend for cleanup, while easy-to-wipe down changing pads and diaper pails make nighttimes a little more seamless.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pails
buckets
Noun
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Boston opened the final quarter with a 10-4 run — including two Tatum buckets, a slick pump-fake layup by Garza and an alley-oop from Tatum to Neemias Queta — to stretch their lead to double digits.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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For email, a tool called Fixer AI pre-sorts his inbox each morning into four buckets—action required, drafted reply, likely spam, confirmed spam—and texts him a daily briefing.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Pails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pails. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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