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Recent Examples of pail
But families attend this event mainly for the festive atmosphere, so don’t go expecting to fill up your Halloween pail.
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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
Filtering through the magnitude of product options is a full-time job—the sheer range of items, from cotton swaddles to monitors to diaper pails, exemplifies the paradox of choice.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Hot water for coffee dangled in a metal pail.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
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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
Filtering through the magnitude of product options is a full-time job—the sheer range of items, from cotton swaddles to monitors to diaper pails, exemplifies the paradox of choice.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
Hot water for coffee dangled in a metal pail.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
bucket
Noun
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This same level of access extends to Milan’s cultural, bucket-list icons.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Of course the main lobby restaurant, Le Jardin, which has icy buckets chilling wine and the near-constant scent of truffles in the air during its 24-hour service, is always packed.—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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