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[jahr] / dʒɑr /






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I also recognize that when we are inside the problem, it’s sometimes hard to see the instructions on the jar.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The pots were large ovoid, flat-based jars with two handles, many featuring a raised horizontal clay “belt” around the widest part of the jar.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Once, he found a jar of cherries, which they shared for breakfast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

David Bowie used to put words in a jar and then pull them out and make a song from that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Thoughts began swirling in my mind like fireflies in a mason jar.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

It was, as Crook told Henderson, a homunculus: one of a set of tiny prophets, or magical spirits, who lived in glass jars full of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

This includes the likely origin of the jars and the contents exchanged across the region.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

On a sidewalk near home, I spotted a cardboard box with wide-mouth Ball jars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

At $12.99 for two jars, it had stopped being the sauce from the fancy grocery store and become simply the sauce my mother bought.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

On holidays, Ella had seen Gran create these calling jars to place on porches and altars and windows.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

On the other goes a coarse, olive-bar-inspired romesco made with jarred roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, salted roasted almonds and smoked paprika.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

"I jarred my knee earlier so i'm going to have to go and get that checked out."

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Scientists, jarred by Beecher’s findings, grew more invested in ruling out the possibility that a drug’s effects were due to placebo.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026

The lack of clarity raises the prospect that the chaos of the past few days, which jarred markets and stress tested trans-Atlantic diplomacy, could return in the near future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

I probably would’ve sat there for the rest of the day, staring at the lava and trying to remember what my name was, but the sea demons jarred me back to reality.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

One possibility is that the rise in these living arrangements is just a side effect of another jarring trend: rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The theatrical flourish seems jarring, but so too is the historic moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

It was all the more jarring because elsewhere Nordqvist had unmistakably fostered that famed European spirit which so often permeates through Solheim and Ryder Cup successes.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Thousands of drivers have filed complaints with U.S. auto-safety regulators describing jarring incidents in which their sunroof unexpectedly exploded or shattered, often while they were driving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Before Will could lift his hand and open it, one of those high, harsh cries sounded very close by, jarring their ears and frightening them horribly.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman


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