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Recent Examples of basket
The Midway store, which had stopped stocking handheld shopping baskets, frequently ran out of shopping carts in recent months, despite a major restocking in April, and blamed the shortage on cart theft.
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Wrigley Field’s basket is one-of-a-kind in baseball.
—Dhani Joseph, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Rustic hanging baskets Mounting baskets in your bathroom is a great way to hold essential items like towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and more.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
Fears parlayed three offensive rebounds into multiple baskets against Indiana in his Sin City finale.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Wrigley Field’s basket is one-of-a-kind in baseball.
—Dhani Joseph, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Rustic hanging baskets Mounting baskets in your bathroom is a great way to hold essential items like towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and more.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
Fears parlayed three offensive rebounds into multiple baskets against Indiana in his Sin City finale.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basket
Noun
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But the stranger pulled a large ax from the trunk of her vehicle, deputies said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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And the parents who will retrieve their colorful trunks, but not their girls.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Chances are, these bins—whether they’re used for pantry, cabinet, or on a shelf—won’t last long.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
30 July 2025
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Gone are the days of heaving a giant bag out from under the bed, these bins come with wheels that require little effort to slide out and have an open top — no unzipping required.—
Rylee Johnston,
People.com,
27 July 2025
Noun
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The Roadrunner is built to be launched out of its own packing crate; before the test flight, the engineers placed one of those crates in the scrub, as tumbleweeds skittered by.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Crate Cover This crate cover provides privacy, security and creates a cozy atmosphere to help reduce anxious behaviors like barking and chewing. Crate Pad This machine-washable crate pad functions as a mattress but can double as a dog bed.—
Kelsey Monstrola,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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Etan was one of the first – and remains one of the most notorious – children featured as missing on the side of milk cartons.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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Little Etan’s cherubic face was one of the first to appear on the side of a milk carton in the 1980s campaign to find missing children.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
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On Thursday, Israel’s military took journalists to the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing where hundreds of boxes of aid were on pallets filling a huge lot.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2025
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Though nothing outside could compete with the moment a uniformed attendant arrived bearing a two-tiered, Tiffany-blue box filled with desserts, accompanied by a souvenir menu with pop-up paper cutouts.—
Naomi Tomky,
Travel + Leisure,
26 July 2025
Noun
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Around a third of parents say their children have either already requested or will probably request a bag charm, like a Labubu doll or Jellycat, this back-to-school season, according to a survey published by Intuit Credit Karma last week.—
Natalie Wu,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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This storage bag set can accommodate 100 liters each, and has a see-through window to keep track of what’s inside.—
Ali Faccenda,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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Other green burials, which avoid embalming chemicals and use biodegradable caskets, already are legal in Minnesota.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
16 July 2025
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Caisson units provide horses and soldiers to pull caskets at military funerals.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
9 July 2025
Noun
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In fact, on Thursday right-hander Ian Seymour inhabited that very same locker.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
31 July 2025
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As Crow-Armstrong stood at his locker inside American Family Field’s visiting clubhouse following Wednesday’s 10-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers, he was reminded that the Cubs executed that franchise-changing transaction exactly four years earlier (July 30, 2021).—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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“Basket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basket. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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