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can

[kan, kuhn] / kæn, kən /




VERB
preserve fruit, vegetable
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK




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Pantoja, for his part, knows he’s facing a champion who’s already had the chance to prove he can go the distance for five rounds.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Attorney’s Office, and the Secret Service, and say ‘No, I’m doing what I want,’” Griffin offered, then so can everyone else.

From Salon Sep. 19, 2026

"We can restore habitats on a much bigger scale, making more of a difference to the wildlife that relies on these places to live, feed and breed," Sim added.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

“What we can do and will do is ensure that any change in relative prices don’t broaden out, don’t have second- and third-order effects on the economy,” he said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

She builds coffins with any materials she can find so the dead can have a decent burial, rather than being thrown into pits in the ground.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The quality of the lifejackets on board was also "completely inadequate" and the fire risk was "considerable" due to how close batteries were to fuel cans, the NCA added.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Krista Ellis, the district’s head of school nurses, described the cans as a kind of status symbol—vibrant packaging paired with the thrill of a head rush.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The sound design of “Voices” is raw and the rumored $50,000 budget so strapped that minor period piece inconsistencies like cheap plastic trash cans sneak into the frame.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

At Burning Man, there are no garbage cans.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

His deep voice made the tin cans dance on the shelves.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Although Pantoja officially lost that night, the injury changed the course of the fight before it could truly get underway.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

An AFP journalist reported that firefighters could be seen trying to extinguish the flames of a burnt-out fuel tank belonging to state oil and gas company Aramco.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

As long as you aren’t going into debt to figure that out, I think this could be a lovely arrangement.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

When she finally saw the twins again, in Isfahan’s female prison, their mother could hardly recognize them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

I wish I could play Grace again, because she would give me that boost of confidence I had earlier.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The story of the “Wooden Horse,” as most translations call it, gets only brief references in Homer’s epic, cited in passing as an example of Odysseus’s cunning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

He is cunning, not intelligent — something he unwittingly proves every time he claims that passing a basic mental competency test shows his brilliance.

From Salon Jul. 6, 2026

Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

He was the runner-up in 2022, armed with the cunning plan of writing a good song – the 70s glam rock pastiche Space Man – and being good at performing it.

From BBC May 17, 2026

But at the same time, out of a deep, adolescent cunning I do not pretend to understand, I realized immediately that I could not remain in the church merely as another worshipper.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

He’s a partial owner of the canned yerba mate brand Mateina, but he “loves it without bias.”

From Slate Sep. 18, 2026

It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The pain was particularly acute at Nortera Foods, which the tribunal identified as the biggest processor of canned food by a significant margin.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

A sausage-and-pepper meal starter eliminates most of the chopping; canned tomatoes provide the sauce’s backbone; and a few spoonfuls of prepared sun-dried tomato pesto pull everything into focus.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

In it there were sacks of flour, meal, com, sugar, salt, and cases of canned food.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Meanwhile, Bumble Bee Foods plans to lay off 197 workers on Nov. 19 and estimates that it will lay off another 36 workers when the fish canning facility finally closes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

The Kiribati government says it is expanding the country's own tuna processing and canning facilities rather than just selling licences to foreign ships.

From BBC Apr. 26, 2026

Although these parasites had been killed during the canning process and would not harm consumers, they hold valuable scientific information.

From Science Daily Apr. 1, 2026

Chicken of the Sea International is studying whether the ruling could help revive production at a Georgia canning plant that relies on imported tuna.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

Their ma was canning beans and didn’t have time to talk.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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