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Recent Examples of pail
In a league full of flashy stat hunters, Rollins brings his lunch pail and just goes to work.
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Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
For decades, our workers have swept the streets and then put the refuse in bags next to the garbage pails on street corners.
—Peter Madonia, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Trump set the house on fire and then fetched a single pail of water.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
An estimated 90% of the core baby care products and the parts that go into making baby paraphernalia — bottles and diaper pails, strollers and car seats — are made in Asia, according to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Assn., a U.S. trade group.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
For decades, our workers have swept the streets and then put the refuse in bags next to the garbage pails on street corners.
—Peter Madonia, New York Daily News, 31 May 2025
Trump set the house on fire and then fetched a single pail of water.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 13 May 2025
An estimated 90% of the core baby care products and the parts that go into making baby paraphernalia — bottles and diaper pails, strollers and car seats — are made in Asia, according to the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Assn., a U.S. trade group.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
bucket
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But no team needs a player of this ilk, someone who can get a bucket off the bounce or even occasionally create for a teammate, quite like the Nets do.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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The splash zone has an oversize tipping bucket 40 feet above the ground, eight mini slides and interactive water features.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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