cupboard
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After she downsized, she opened her cupboard and showed him four plates, four saucers, four cups and four bowls.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
"They deliver lots and lots of flavour for not very much money, and they last well in your store cupboard," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
So bereft is the ideas cupboard that even notoriously mediocre 1990s films are being summoned back to life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
But experts say don't forget about your slightly less fashionable slow cooker - likely buried in the back of your cupboard.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Tao jumps down from his stool and grabs several spices from a nearby cupboard.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
"The bed almost flipped over. Tables and all the things on the tables and on top of the cupboards all fell and scattered everywhere," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
I took the small appliances from the cupboards, then mugs and bowls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
His tapes are stored by genre in dedicated cupboards with closing doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
For the hardware, the couple will be replacing the existing silver-toned metal with gold, including new faucets, new drawer handles, and new knobs for the cupboards.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
These would be oak chests and cupboards with Gothic panelling and strange faces of men or angels—or devils—carved darkly upon them, black, bees-waxed, worm-eaten and shiny—gloomy testimonies to the old life in their coffinlike solidity.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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