as in jug
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout
please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table
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Recent Examples of pitcher
Pivetta is the first Padres pitcher since Joe Musgrove in 2021 to throw at least seven scoreless innings in three games in a season at Petco Park.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025
To make this red-and-blue version: In a pitcher or drink dispenser, combine blueberries and sliced strawberries, a bottle of dry white wine, and 1 cup each of vodka and cranberry juice; top with sparkling water.
—Meghan Holloran, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
As a pitcher, Ohtani has allowed one earned run, eight hits and logged 28 strikeouts in 19 innings facing Kansas City.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
Meyer becomes the second Marlins pitcher ruled out for the season, joining Braxton Garrett, who will miss all of 2025 after January elbow surgery.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025
To make this red-and-blue version: In a pitcher or drink dispenser, combine blueberries and sliced strawberries, a bottle of dry white wine, and 1 cup each of vodka and cranberry juice; top with sparkling water.
—Meghan Holloran, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
As a pitcher, Ohtani has allowed one earned run, eight hits and logged 28 strikeouts in 19 innings facing Kansas City.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
Meyer becomes the second Marlins pitcher ruled out for the season, joining Braxton Garrett, who will miss all of 2025 after January elbow surgery.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitcher
Noun
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Bring gloves, utility scissors and a clean milk jug.—
Staff report,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Dec. 2022
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Councell tapped a plastic jug the size of a garden shed containing sugar water, nearby another full of corn syrup.—
Bill Weir,
CNN,
12 Dec. 2022
Noun
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Tasting begins at 11 a.m., with $2 sample cups or a $25 Master Ticket for sampling all the chili and voting.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2025
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Bikes The bikes took over the city streets during COVID, When New Yorkers discovered that everything could be delivered, Including a cup of coffee from Starbucks, for some reason.—
Jenny Allen,
New Yorker,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The painting includes portraits of two children, one with wide-open, frightened eyes and the other with eyes closed, somberly sipping on a bottle of Coca-Cola.—
Hung Duong,
Artforum,
18 June 2025
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Punch a few small holes in the caps of plastic milk jugs or large soda bottles and fill the bottles with water.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Peer at the pendulous breasts on a Medici workshop ewer or those on a screeching siren centered on an 18th-century scalloped sweetmeat dish.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
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Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.—
Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Sep. 2024
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No detail was overlooked — down to the drink’s flagon.—
Violet Goldstone,
WWD,
12 Sep. 2024
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Their crop: wine, so fine the poet Dante sang its praises and medieval kings and popes guzzled it by the flagon.—
Julia Buckley,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Nov. 2023
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“Pitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitcher. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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