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Recent Examples of watering can
Use a watering can to carefully pour water over the base of the plant to saturate it.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2025
Perplexity’s video disappoints with a watering can that appears out of thin air, for example, while Veo’s video duplicates its cutting board.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Other products include Windsor chairs handmade in Lewes, East Sussex, England, by a company called Hope Springs; replica wooden Mackintosh stools made in Perthshire, Scotland, and vintage watering cans made from French copper and antique gardening tools restored by Garden & Wood Ltd.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Stock image, right, shows a WaterAid watering can.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2025
Perplexity’s video disappoints with a watering can that appears out of thin air, for example, while Veo’s video duplicates its cutting board.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
Other products include Windsor chairs handmade in Lewes, East Sussex, England, by a company called Hope Springs; replica wooden Mackintosh stools made in Perthshire, Scotland, and vintage watering cans made from French copper and antique gardening tools restored by Garden & Wood Ltd.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Stock image, right, shows a WaterAid watering can.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for watering can
Noun
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Track your plant’s water supply meticulously with a clear, self-watering pot.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
30 Oct. 2025
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If the top few inches of soil are still wet, put down the watering pot.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Visible only to Hana at first, in convex reflective surfaces like a kettle or the back of a spoon, Bertha does not take kindly to Hana’s attempts to kick the pill habit and start policing her food intake the old-fashioned way.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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Keep kettles warm and fire steady.—
CBS News Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
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