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Recent Examples of pails
Long, colorful glass tubes fill pails on the floor and her desk.
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Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Barrels were rolled out to the airplane and gas transferred to our tanks in open pails.
—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
Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
Barrels were rolled out to the airplane and gas transferred to our tanks in open pails.
—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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Golden State held off Indiana in the waning minutes, led by a flurry of clutch buckets from Janelle Salaün and Veronica Burton to earn a 90-88 win.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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The defense isn’t good enough for a team that loves to create opportunities on that end and convert on easy buckets in transition.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2026
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“Pails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pails. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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