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Recent Examples of teacup
Even secondary characters and park-specific icons, like the Haunted Mansion’s Hat Box Ghost and Chip and Dale in a Mad Tea Party teacup, are included.
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Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Unlike the mate consumed across Argentina—and served in a gourd—this version, known as mate cocido, was smoky and sweet, and served in a teacup.
—Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
Alina cradled her teacup, half awestruck.
—Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
The Fujiwhara Effect is the interaction of two tropical systems that causes both to dance around each other like a spinning teacup amusement park ride or ballroom dancers moving in unison, AccuWeather said.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
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Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Unlike the mate consumed across Argentina—and served in a gourd—this version, known as mate cocido, was smoky and sweet, and served in a teacup.
—Kendall Hunter, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
Alina cradled her teacup, half awestruck.
—Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
The Fujiwhara Effect is the interaction of two tropical systems that causes both to dance around each other like a spinning teacup amusement park ride or ballroom dancers moving in unison, AccuWeather said.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teacup
Noun
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Transfer the bones to a medium pot and add the mirin, soy sauce, sake, brown sugar, black pepper, scallion greens, garlic, ginger, and 1 cup of water.—
SAVEUR Editors,
Saveur,
22 Jan. 2026
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Top the sauce with the mozzarella cheese and remaining ¼ cup of parmesan cheese.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Strolling past glass display cases of fossils and earthenware artifacts, my eyes landed on a rack by the main entrance with flyers advertising children’s events and local flea markets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an opulent neoclassical rotunda in the historic Steinway Hall.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Among the silver items were a tripod jar and a silver goblet with remarkable designs of grape and honeysuckle.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Cup one end of a dumbbell in both hands in front of your chest with your elbows pointing down—in this position, the dumbbell and your arms will look like a goblet.—
Greg Presto,
Outside,
7 Jan. 2026
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The whole quest for the Holy Grail—the magical chalice Jesus drank from during the Last Supper or, alternately, which Joseph used to collect Jesus’s blood at the cross—is the raison d’etre for exploits of Arthur and his knights.—
Adam Erace,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Jan. 2026
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Eli in blonde Viking braids with a purple chalice?—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Teacup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teacup. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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