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vats

noun

plural of vat

as in bottles

a large tub or barrel used especially for holding liquids a vat of cooking oil

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Recent Examples of vats Armand tries on personalities — clingy boyfriend, conniving mastermind — and flocks to love interests like new rock star Lestat goes through vats of body glitter. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 July 2026 Catherine Roque is fermenting in concrete eggs at Mas d'Alezon, and the Cauvys at Domaine Cauvy are moving the same way, while the Vidal-Dumoulin family at Château de La Liquière is known for a gentle, low-intervention approach across some sixty parcel-by-parcel vats. — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026 Grapes are fermented in oak vats for about two weeks, and the resulting wine is aged for three years in American and French oak barrels. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 26 June 2026 That’s what was cooking in the vats. — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026 These chips melt in extreme heat, glitch in high radiation, and corrode in harsh chemical vats. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026 Also in the 1990s, physicists in Russia and Italy had put highly radioactive sources right next to huge vats of gallium, a metallic liquid that’s especially sensitive to neutrinos, to test whether the vats were working as neutrino detectors. — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026 Signs educate guests on the process of how the agave is fermented with yeast in large tanks and wooden vats. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2026 Behind every bottle of bourbon are vats of waste materials. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Another notable feature is its giant mimosa, which contains two bottles’ worth of champagne.

— Jenna Thompson July 9, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Some chemical bottles were also unlabeled, which was a repeat violation.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026

Definition of bottles

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Five pitchers — Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Whit Wyatt, Larry French, and Carl Hubbell — held the AL to three hits.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Walker was also one of a number of Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their hats during San Francisco’s Pride Night in June, igniting a controversy that has engulfed the franchise for nearly a month.

— Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

Definition of pitchers

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Sanitize Garden Tools Keep a bottle of hydrogen peroxide with your gardening tools for a quick way to clean tools and plant containers.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 14 July 2026
The new project would allow containers to enter and leave the country without having to pass through the strait, before moving them on trucks overland to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and neighboring Gulf countries.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 July 2026

Definition of containers

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Available in 5-piece, 8-piece, 15-piece and 30-piece order sizes, the nuggets come in mini-buckets along with Jollibee’s signature gravy or one of five dipping sauces.

— Mike Snider, USA Today, 5 July 2026
The women scrape the adhesive back into buckets, and the exercise begins again.

— Christopher Clark, NPR, 5 July 2026

Definition of buckets

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A lot of hotels don't expect guests to do this (and aren't aware of this behavior) and don't 'deep' clean the kettles.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Get connected at home with the $25 Amazon Smart Plug, which works with Alexa to turn devices like lamps and electric kettles on and off with ease.

— Madeline Merinuk, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026