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Recent Examples of tankard
According to the Harry Potter website, the beverage could be served warm and foaming in tankards or cold in bottles and tasted like a less-sweet butterscotch.
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Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Force Ghosts • Raise a tankard of Weequay Pirate Brew to Michael Abels, The Acolyte’s composer.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 5 June 2024
Old New York money probably chased a tankard from around 1710 that belonged to Henry Beekman, whose grandson, Robert Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
In the worst-case scenario—when LNG makes long journeys on old, polluting tankards—the fuel is 274 percent worse for the environment than coal is.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
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Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Force Ghosts • Raise a tankard of Weequay Pirate Brew to Michael Abels, The Acolyte’s composer.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 5 June 2024
Old New York money probably chased a tankard from around 1710 that belonged to Henry Beekman, whose grandson, Robert Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
In the worst-case scenario—when LNG makes long journeys on old, polluting tankards—the fuel is 274 percent worse for the environment than coal is.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tankard
Noun
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The ninth drop separated in April 2014 during an operation to replace the beaker beneath it.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
9 June 2026
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One day the kitchen staff lent me out to a lab for the afternoon to hand-wash delicate glass beakers and pipettes.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
Noun
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For another, just ask any of the smiling stein-cradling kellnerinnen inside the 2,500-seat Hippodrom tent.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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Competitions are planned ranging from a strawberry costume contest to pie eating and beer stein-holding.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026
Noun
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One casualty was his lovely Princeton apartment, which never came together, more grad-student than dean in its feel, a lonely refrigerator in the kitchen holding only a cup of iced coffee or a jar of mayonnaise.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
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Pour about 1/4 cup of canola, flaxseed, or vegetable oil over the surface of the griddle, and scrub the oil into the surface using a pumice grill block.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
18 June 2026
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Inspired by Greek mythology and other schools of mysticism, Hecate is a candlelit space meant to savor high-concept, theatrical cocktails that arrive in eccentric goblets and bowls.—
Tanya Edwards,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 June 2026
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Stick them in a fancy goblet, picnic pail, or mint julep cup, depending on the event.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
3 June 2026
Noun
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It’s served in the chalice-like 1960s Bar Basso glass, paying homage to the iconic Milanese bar where the Sbagliato was created.—
Mariette Williams,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
27 May 2026
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Yet for Pratt, a registered Republican who’s spent the race positioning himself as a nonpartisan and independent, the endorsement is likely a poisoned chalice.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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“Tankard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tankard. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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