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tub

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as in vat

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Recent Examples of tub The rain shower stocked with L’Occitane products and a deep soaking tub set the bathroom apart from a standard hotel setup. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026 Also, to see all these big players here around us, like in the gym or making recovery in the hot tub, was really nice to see them and to speak with them. — Pj Green july 15, Kansas City Star, 15 July 2026 The policy also establishes that a cooling tub or similar cold immersion method must be set up and accessible for players prior to each game. — Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 15 July 2026 This insulating wrap, in addition to the five-millimeter foam built into the tub itself, keeps water at the ideal cold-plunge temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit or under—even in the heat of the summer. — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for tub

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In a conventional fission reactor, a uranium fuel rods are submerged inside a large vat of water.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Come for all the doggie high jinks – thanks to a ton of animatronic animals and a John Hughes screenplay – and stay for Close getting dunked in a vat of molasses.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026

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Skipper and scrumhalf Lucu darted over after a strong run into contact from his hooker Lamothe and touched down on the half-hour to score France’s fourth try, securing a bonus competition point.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
This kind of inclusivity would explain Glenn Close‘s appearance — as a visiting literary scholar — at just the right moment, as well as Penélope Cruz’s showstopping cameo as Nené, a singer-slash-hooker who schools Sebastián on the then-nascent form of the modern transgender movement.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026

Definition of hooker

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In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
The find included six large rooms, including one almost 1,000 square feet in area, and the remains of olive oil production equipment, channels for funneling the oil into collection basins, a cistern for storing the oil, and pieces of ceramic vessels.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026

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The gondola plan was Chastain’s 11th Kansas City petition in two decades of transit activism.

— Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
On Wednesday, June 17, the Lancaster County park's Sky Ride, an open-air gondola that transports guests across the property, stopped while guests were on board, a park spokesperson said in a statement shared with PEOPLE.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026

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The impact could be similar to assigning a personal banker to each retail client without adding FTEs.

— Michael Abbott, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Gani is a banker and freelance journalist who is a correspondent for the X page ARG Soccer News, which has been responsible for posting videos capturing the mood in Bangladesh during this World Cup, such as the one below.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 July 2026

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One day later, another incident occurred in the evening involving a whaleboat that caught fire and capsized near the province’s Lukolela territory, AP, Al Jazeera and Sky News said, citing Congo’s humanitarian affairs ministry.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
And since each ship carried three to five whaleboats, the amount of rope needed just to conduct whaling operations on one whaleship was as much as ten thousand feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025

Definition of whaleboat

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An array of pillars, permanent marks, the imposing Napoleonic-era Spitbank Fort, as well as the comings-and-goings of ferries and even the hovercraft going back and forth between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 26 July 2026
The hovercraft tragedy underscores the rapidly changing weather conditions, dangerous waves and strong winds associated with Lake Baikal, reports indicated.

— Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2026

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