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tin cans

noun

plural of tin can

as in drums

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Over 400 students in the East Aurora High School Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program, known as the Tomcat Regiment, also marched down Downer Place during the parade to the beat of their own drums.

— Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
The rest of Pavement are still in bed, but West wants to survey the stage and play his drums before sound check begins.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 10 Nov. 2026

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Its canisters must accommodate the interceptor without compromising the missile during launch.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
Once on the jail grounds, prosecutors claimed, Meiser hid the canisters in the trunk of a sheriff’s patrol car.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

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The magnetic tins stick right to your fridge for easy access while cooking.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026
Thanks in part to that retirement party, Sacramento library patrons can check out hundreds of different pans, muffin tins and cookie cutters from the Shari Nichelini Cake Pan Library.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of tins

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In his opening address, Al Jaber warned that nearly a billion barrels had been drawn from global oil inventories since the disruption of Hormuz, illustrating how quickly geopolitical instability can affect global energy supplies.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Metcalf told Fortune last month that even Saudi Arabia’s plan to send 10 million barrels of oil a day around Hormuz may barely move prices.

— Steven John, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026

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Cops test Celsius cans to make arrest Over months of prolonged multi-turn exchanges that sometimes stayed open for weeks, ChatGPT seemingly violated its own Model Spec to help Cheryl advance the plan.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
The Clean Water Fund gets, on average, $25 million to $30 million each year from the state’s rooms and meals tax, a surcharge applied to some property transfers and deposit money that consumers pay on cans and bottles.

— Jonathan Mingle, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2026

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