drawer
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When she and dad got married, she laminated the seating chart, and she still has the laminated menu from their rehearsal dinner in a kitchen drawer.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Despite its unusual appearance, the specimen remained unstudied in a museum collection drawer for many years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
All you really need is blue cheese and mayonnaise, paired with whatever is knocking around the vegetable drawer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
And then there was MapQuest — another artifact safely filed away in the same early-2000s drawer as Freedom Fries — which announced, simply, “We’re not changing it.”
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
She goes over to our desk, which we’re using as our makeshift kitchen, and opens the drawer.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
That evidence had been sitting in museum drawers, misfiled, for decades.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
"Archives are only useful if we can get the information out of dusty drawers and into current research, teaching, and wider conversations," Newland added.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Neatly labeled drawers hold hand fans, plastic snakes, buttons, buckles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“After all these months, the investigators are left with 12 metal file drawers full of information, much of it useless,” wrote Newsday.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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