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carton

noun as in box for holding items

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Although she claims that Cam is her favorite kid, she only half-listens to him when he says he’s headed to boot camp, instructing him to return home with a carton of milk.

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The last is a picture of a baby reaching for a carton of milk, the others are of local public events or snapshots of personal significance.

The recalled products were distributed between June 16 and July 9 in California and Nevada, with the code CA 7695 on the carton.

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An aggressive missing person's campaign featured the boy's face on milk cartons and posters across the US.

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A few are also making memes of so-called “chicken dealers” whose illicit product of choice are cartons of eggs as opposed to hard drugs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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