container
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The ignited container landed in a car park, where the fire quickly went out.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
“From the beginning, the conceit was to summon all the types of experiences of Blackness in one place, the project being a vessel or container for all of that expression,” Halsey says.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The rest are listed as bulk carriers or container ships of various types.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Filled with my furniture, with paintings and posters leaning against its corrugated metal walls, it looked like the house in microcosm, as if I had moved, under duress, to a shipping container.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Nancy dropped her basket with the container of milk.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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