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Recent Examples of pail
One of her chores was to get pails of water from a well.
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Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Authorities In an update post, the council shared a video showing how the beach cleanup was going as volunteers scoured the sand, picking up the debris with a metal tool and throwing it into a pail.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
The walkway has dog bags and garbage pails, too.
—Annemarie Dooling, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Flora swirled the mop, then tiredly rested it in the pail.
—Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
Authorities In an update post, the council shared a video showing how the beach cleanup was going as volunteers scoured the sand, picking up the debris with a metal tool and throwing it into a pail.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
The walkway has dog bags and garbage pails, too.
—Annemarie Dooling, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
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Essentially, each state gets its own bucket, noted Dr. Mujeeb Basit, a modeling expert on disease spread who wasn’t involved with the new research.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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Funds to prevent people from becoming homeless, for example, are spread over all three buckets of money.—
Doug Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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