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Recent Examples of stoupAnd surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup!—Natalie Schumann, Country Living, 31 Dec. 2022 Thin footpaths weave past remnants of a fifth-century hut, ancient field boundaries and an eighth-century medieval chapel, still with its holy water stoup.—Kate Eshelby, CNN, 14 June 2021 Explorers have discovered tiled floor, steps and in 2006, a holy water stoup was recovered.—Jim Dobson, Forbes, 16 May 2021 Likely used between Edward and Henry’s reigns, the stoup, or basin, held holy water for monks to wash their hands in upon entering the abbey.—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020 The stoups were dry in churches in the weeks leading to the shelter-in-place order.—Marc Bona, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020 Churchgoers have been asked to stop shaking hands, communal cups are in storage and holy water stoups are dry.—Fox News, 4 Mar. 2020
When that got a laugh, Gorsuch went on a brief tour of the drinking habits of the Founding Fathers:
John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast every day.
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Noah Feldman,
Twin Cities,
12 Mar. 2026
John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider for breakfast.
Log Cabin maple syrup was packaged in a special Bicentennial flask.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
Professor Wallace’s team has slashed the need for fossil-fuel hydrogen in chemical manufacturing by developing a clever, single-flask method powered by waste bread.
Last week, to criticize billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ role as honorary chair alongside wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos, activists with the group Everyone Hates Elon left approximately 300 bottles of fake urine in the famed museum, The New York Times reports.
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Adam Carlson,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
Use a mister or spray bottle to keep the soil moist but not wet.
For those looking for something more local, there’s an interesting Peranakan cuisine menu at Straits & Co, reflecting the melting pot of the region’s merchant past.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
This spacious dish-drying rack can accommodate full-sized pots and pans, in addition to smaller kitchenware.