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carton

noun as in box for holding items

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If they were loose, she folded a carton in the shape of a heart to fill in the space.

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The existing tax, which mainly applies to fizzy drinks, will be applied to bottles and cartons of milk-based drinks, including milkshakes, flavoured milk, milk substitute drinks and lattes, adding a few pence to their cost.

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The tax applies to products in cans, cartons and other packaging, but not to drinks sold over-the-counter in cafes or coffee shops.

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It already applies to most sugary and fizzy soft drinks sold in cans, bottles and cartons in supermarkets.

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The pickers, many of them also minors, snapped berries from plants and placed them in plastic cartons, eight of them in a cardboard box.

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

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