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Recent Examples of pail
Molinaroli sees his effort as a laboratory for social change because education for him is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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William Jones, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Don't be the house that supplies the candy everyone hates and leaves at the bottom of their pail.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
But families attend this event mainly for the festive atmosphere, so don’t go expecting to fill up your Halloween pail.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
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William Jones, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Don't be the house that supplies the candy everyone hates and leaves at the bottom of their pail.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Oct. 2025
But families attend this event mainly for the festive atmosphere, so don’t go expecting to fill up your Halloween pail.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
And, that there was a goblin, squatting in my skull, rattling a metal pail full of bolts and hissing failure, rot, spoil.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
bucket
Noun
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The girl did not have access to a bathroom, the affidavit said, and she was forced to wash her clothes in a small bucket and to bathe outside in their backyard.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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Yoshi and Luma popcorn buckets will be released alongside Bowser's tiny cauldrons on April 1 to celebrate the release of the new film.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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