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tankard

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Definition of tankard

as in beaker

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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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for tankard

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Many labs currently use a basic setup involving an electrolyte solution and two electrodes in an open beaker.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
The final tear drawn from the once overflowing beaker.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 June 2026

Definition of beaker

Noun

Activities will include music and traditional folk tunes, dancing, sing-alongs, and fashion and stein-holding competitions.

— Nathan Pilling July 29, Kansas City Star, 29 July 2026
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

Definition of stein

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But upon hearing of my preference for savory cocktails, the elegant bartender gave me a little goblet of tomato water infused with vodka.

— Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 26 July 2026
So far, large quantities of undamaged Chinese porcelain have been identified, together with parts of chandeliers, goblets, bottles and barrels of grain.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026

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The Dundon family comprises the entire first two rows of names on the iconic chalice, even though Papa Dundon is the only one who holds a position within the organization.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
O’Connor’s harrowing depictions of the effects of irresistible grace on the willfully self-damned aren’t everyone’s chalice of wine.

— SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026

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