jar
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Richard Thomas came out carrying venison and beef sausage, banana nut bread, a dog toy and a jar of apple maple bacon jam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Which, when you think about it, is a pretty compelling argument for not pouring that jar down the drain.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
It’s a 12th century Qingbai ware prunus vase, a meiping jar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Claire Salinda: Your composition captures flowers, chamoy and other candies and fruit sumptuously arranged in and around a ceramic jar from LACMA’s permanent collection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
She’d take out money from every paycheck and drop it in a big jar with my name on it.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The walls carry bottles, cans, jars, and echo hushed conversation.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Whey protein powder used to be a niche supplement sold in big jars to fitness mega-enthusiasts.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
Ms. Butterly accomplishes the feat of making “ceramics” become “sculpture” without the usual method of constructing giant jars with impossibly minuscule openings and jazzily geometric surface decoration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
These small mesh tents cover less than a square meter of ground and funnel emerging insects into glass jars.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
They had restored thousands of bowls, bottles, vases, cups, jars, jugs, beakers, and plates in more than two hundred different shapes.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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Throughout the documentary, former players describe how Benitez's criticism and obsession with granular tactical detail sometimes jarred.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Scientists, jarred by Beecher’s findings, grew more invested in ruling out the possibility that a drug’s effects were due to placebo.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026
The lack of clarity raises the prospect that the chaos of the past few days, which jarred markets and stress tested trans-Atlantic diplomacy, could return in the near future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Nacua, who scored back-to-back touchdowns early in the game, suddenly became a defender and jarred the ball loose before Scott could secure it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026
A thunderous sound arose and I saw four men running toward me pushing something that jarred the walk.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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The roughly 7 million student-loan borrowers who were enrolled in SAVE, a Biden-era repayment program, will likely experience some of the most jarring changes over the next few months.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Heil said he had just visited an exhibit featuring art made by artificial intelligence - an experience which he described as jarring.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
For many Chavistas, the symbolism has been just as jarring as the policy changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Misbah Rashad, 30, an epidemiologist who attends the mosque daily, said it has been jarring to see a place so core to her and to her community on the news.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The jarring trip down the mountain has reopened her wound.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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