mug

"To explain it, imagine a mug and a doughnut," he said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Winterich kept otherwise ordinary gifts — including a sunflower mug chosen because her mother knew yellow was her favorite color, because her mother would never give her another one.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

"It's been used but it's still perfectly clean. Here's a lovely mug with no tea stains."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Her expressionless mug has been featured on countless toys, not to mention bowling balls, motor oil, a Fender Strat, a pricey Judith Leiber clutch, sanitary napkins and men’s underwear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

She reached for the pot anyway, but the mug that accompanied it was cracked; lukewarm coffee started seeping onto her fingers.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Waiters weave through packed aisles carrying foaming one-liter mugs, and strangers at long wooden tables quickly become friends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The NHS advises pregnant women, external to keep caffeine intake below 200mg a day, about two mugs of filter coffee, as studies have linked it to low birth weight and other complications.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I have no idea what children will make of a movie with as many semi-serious gags about extortionate legal bills as silly ones where a spider mugs a bug.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Mostly cheap, guilty pleasures, from coasters to Christmas ornaments to, yes, shelves of Starbucks mugs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Jennet crossed herself as the man swept platters and mugs off the big table and helped his wife lie down.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Spencer Pratt wasn’t mugged by reality, but it literally burned his house down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Also: What kind of dingus gets mugged on Fifth Avenue?

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026

Ultrapure-water projects are big, one-off beasts that everybody and his brother wants to build, so even the smart operators can watch their margins get mugged the minute capital spending gets a head cold.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025

Broadcaster Emma Barnett has said finding out she was going through perimenopause at the age of 38 felt like she had been "mugged, robbed".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

A photo in a magazine might remind her of Carolines high school graduation, the way she’d mugged for the camera like she just knew this was the beginning of a fabulous adventure.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

Outside in the streets, the cosplayers enjoyed mugging for the cameras or taking selfies and laughing at themselves and others while interacting with their favorite celebrities.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

After that earlier Warner mugging, I wrote about the “legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

“It is funny that the heaviest of all awards is given by actors — ’us what we do, it means so much,’” he said, mugging ponderous emotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025

Her resignation comes a day after she admitted that she told police she had lost her phone during a mugging on a night out but later found it had not been taken.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024

I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith