jar
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Your hand and forearm strength can be important to everyday functions, like opening a jar or turning a key in a difficult lock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Instead of a jar there’s a white board and every time someone speaks in AI-like language, they get a tally mark.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
David Bowie used to put words in a jar and then pull them out and make a song from that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
So the ability to simply buy a jar descended from it feels like an almost comically specific luxury: somebody else has already done the sticky part.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
A powder jar burst into a shower of sparks like at the Dragon Festival in Turfan.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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On a sidewalk near home, I spotted a cardboard box with wide-mouth Ball jars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Dmyterko lines up jars of gherkins and tomatoes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sure, sometimes the beautiful jar is bought by someone who simply enjoys beautiful jars.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
The Mint struck its final circulating pennies on Nov. 12, 2025, each one costing 3.69 cents to produce, leaving roughly 300 billion of them in jars, couches and the ashtrays of America.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
They’d hunt one down, butcher the animal, cut up the meat, and preserve it in jars they sealed shut in boiling water.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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On the other goes a coarse, olive-bar-inspired romesco made with jarred roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, salted roasted almonds and smoked paprika.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 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
I was jarred and shocked by the style, the clear, clean, sweeping sentences.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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The report noted that employers hold a jarring skepticism about the current generation’s ability to handle workplace demands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
One possibility is that the rise in these living arrangements is just a side effect of another jarring trend: rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was all the more jarring because elsewhere Nordqvist had unmistakably fostered that famed European spirit which so often permeates through Solheim and Ryder Cup successes.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
This shift in focus was jarring for the Post, which had previously published a diversity of viewpoints in its opinion pages while maintaining a largely liberal editorial orientation.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
The dinner bell rings, jarring me out of my reverie.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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