cupboard
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After she downsized, she opened her cupboard and showed him four plates, four saucers, four cups and four bowls.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Defense contractors are spending billions to build factories and increase production to stock America’s nearly bare cupboard of highly engineered missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
So bereft is the ideas cupboard that even notoriously mediocre 1990s films are being summoned back to life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
And they need every dollar to fill out a bare cupboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Mamá said, looking all around at the brightly painted kitchen, the colorful floor, and the cupboard with plastic flowers.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
"The bed almost flipped over. Tables and all the things on the tables and on top of the cupboards all fell and scattered everywhere," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
I took the small appliances from the cupboards, then mugs and bowls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
She commonly sees kitchens where infrequently used gadgets take up "prime real estate"; things which could be stored in drawers, cupboards or even the loft, if it's something really gathering dust.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
His tapes are stored by genre in dedicated cupboards with closing doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
While the woman dug around in the cupboards for a tray, Roza slipped the bacon and egg to the dog.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
