as in ceramics
articles made of baked clay
we picked up some ceramic vases in a pottery store
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Painting, making pottery, or sculpting can communicate something essential about you.
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Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 22 Jan. 2025
Use frost-proof pots with good drainage, such as glazed pottery and pots made of fiberglass, plastic, metal, or stone.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
Its occupant went to the next life with beads, copper-alloy arrowheads, and pottery.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
But Under the 1906 Antiquities Act, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt to reduce looting and theft of Indian pottery and artifacts in New Mexico and other areas, presidents can establish national monuments by proclamation on existing federal land, without approval from Congress.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 22 Jan. 2025
Use frost-proof pots with good drainage, such as glazed pottery and pots made of fiberglass, plastic, metal, or stone.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
Its occupant went to the next life with beads, copper-alloy arrowheads, and pottery.
—Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
But Under the 1906 Antiquities Act, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt to reduce looting and theft of Indian pottery and artifacts in New Mexico and other areas, presidents can establish national monuments by proclamation on existing federal land, without approval from Congress.
—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Pottery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pottery. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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