drawer
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Straight away we’re suspicious that Carney and co-screenwriter Peter McDonald stashed this story in a drawer ages ago and didn’t bother to dust it off.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
And the solution was hiding in my desk drawer all along.
From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026
More than 30 years later, Nesbitt rediscovered it in a drawer and brought it to Virginia Tech for further study.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
It had been tucked away in a museum drawer for decades as it was thought to have been an unremarkable specimen.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
We blinked, and some of us remembered the snake in the drawer.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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