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Recent Examples of tin
The easiest and most expensive way is to buy Scrappy’s Firewater Tincture, but there’s a half dozen ways to get heat into a drink, like muddling a pepper in the tin, or infusing the spirit.
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 May 2025
Once a guest selects their coffee, Ball grinds it, then hands the grounds over in a metal tin so the guest can smell them before extraction.
—Emily Bloch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes and then transfer to a rack to finish cooling for about an hour.
—Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Boxes of pasta stacked high, maybe, alongside tins of sardines or a jar of olives.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 May 2025
Once a guest selects their coffee, Ball grinds it, then hands the grounds over in a metal tin so the guest can smell them before extraction.
—Emily Bloch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
Cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes and then transfer to a rack to finish cooling for about an hour.
—Elizabeth Karmel, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Boxes of pasta stacked high, maybe, alongside tins of sardines or a jar of olives.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tin
Noun
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On another morning Woods put a hollow red barrel on the drill and bored into the ice at a refrozen site to extract an ice core about as long and thick as his arm.—
Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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The International Monetary Fund has estimated that oil must be at almost $100 a barrel for the kingdom to balance its funding of Vision 2030 economic transformation.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
Noun
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The studio owner, Gary Young, volunteered to play drums for them.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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The younger Paul learned about recording in his father’s home studio in Mahwah and played drums in his touring band from 1959 to 1969.—
Erin Osmon,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2025
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“Tin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tin. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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