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Recent Examples of tub Instead of purchasing an entirely new plunge tub, users add a cooling system to an existing bathtub. — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026 Fill the sink or a tub with 1 gallon of hot water, 1 cup of vinegar, and a few drops of dish soap. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 July 2026 Smart Cold Plunge Tubs Lead the Charge The category leader is the smart cold plunge tub. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 Diggins noted a lack of regular access to resources such as a cold tub, sauna, massage therapist and IV treatment, which were major points in the collective bargaining agreement players fought for over the last two years. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for tub

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In a conventional fission reactor, a uranium fuel rods are submerged inside a large vat of water.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Come for all the doggie high jinks – thanks to a ton of animatronic animals and a John Hughes screenplay – and stay for Close getting dunked in a vat of molasses.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026

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Ravutaumada responded with Fiji's third try, a simple overlap, to trail by a point but Wales managed the last quarter well and scored in a lineout drive to replacement hooker Ryan Elias and from scrum ball to center Eddie James.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026

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In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
The find included six large rooms, including one almost 1,000 square feet in area, and the remains of olive oil production equipment, channels for funneling the oil into collection basins, a cistern for storing the oil, and pieces of ceramic vessels.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026

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The gondola plan was Chastain’s 11th Kansas City petition in two decades of transit activism.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
On Wednesday, June 17, the Lancaster County park's Sky Ride, an open-air gondola that transports guests across the property, stopped while guests were on board, a park spokesperson said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026

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Every central banker is weighing the balance of these risks, though with Big Tech on his doorstep, Warsh will need to be all the more discerning in both his interpretation of the outlook and the delivery of his analysis.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
While a number of groups, including Tsai, have invested multiple times in PLL, Rabil said that with each funding round the group typically sought a leading role from a new banker.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 June 2026

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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025

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