drawer

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Straight away we’re suspicious that Carney and co-screenwriter Peter McDonald stashed this story in a drawer ages ago and didn’t bother to dust it off.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

My ski pass stays in my desk drawer, and each weekday as I sign off from work, I tap my phone to the pass to disable all the most tempting stuff from my device.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2026

More than 30 years later, Nesbitt rediscovered it in a drawer and brought it to Virginia Tech for further study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

It had been tucked away in a museum drawer for decades as it was thought to have been an unremarkable specimen.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Little Britches bobbed onto the rostrum and over to the desk and pulled open the drawer.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck