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slab

noun

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as in ingot

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Recent Examples of slab The top is a thick slab of sandblasted acrylic that lends the surface a serene luminosity. — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026 The slab was too heavy to toss aside, and Osorio was worried there could be more people trapped underneath. — Rocio Munoz, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026 Its front door was six inches too short for its frame and outfitted with a bathroom push knob instead of a lever handle, almost as if the original slab had been blown from its casing by an internal explosion. — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026 Even in the bathrooms, the toilet and bidet are concealed inside a kind of Travertine bench and the showerhead pokes out from a monolithic stone slab. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for slab

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In 2001, an 80-pound ingot was bought by a private collector for a record $8 million.

— CBS News, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
People will see the deity off, wishing for a prosperous year and eating wonton resembling an ingot.

— Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 14 Feb. 2026

Definition of ingot

Noun

Line pan with a 9-inch-wide strip of parchment paper, extending the parchment over the two long sides of pan (to lift the bread from the pan after baking).

— Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2026
However, in the ’90s, it was relocated to Devon Avenue — the Far North Side street famous for its strip of South Asian businesses known as Little India.

— Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

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Alexander Bazilevsky, a BNL physicist, and electromagnetic calorimetry manager for the ePIC detector, stated that the calorimeter will primarily measure electrons scattered by the beam.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
Laser ablation, which aims a focused beam at cells, accounted for about 45% of procedures.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 21 Aug. 2026

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The herder cared for Pantoja, keeping him warm with animal skins, teaching him to milk the goats, and how to hunt rabbits with a stick.

— Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
In the shade of a dense forest canopy, Odette Kouakou paces through her grove of cocoa trees, snapping off dead leaves and poking the ripe yellow pods hanging down from the branches with a stick.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026

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