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jar

[jahr] / dʒɑr /






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I also recognize that when we are inside the problem, it’s sometimes hard to see the instructions on the jar.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The pots were large ovoid, flat-based jars with two handles, many featuring a raised horizontal clay “belt” around the widest part of the jar.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

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

She wondered if somewhere nearby it was sitting in a jar, waiting.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Digital versions of the dead celebs in bell jars had to be matched to the correct gravestone in the castle gardens.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

It was, as Crook told Henderson, a homunculus: one of a set of tiny prophets, or magical spirits, who lived in glass jars full of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The pots were large ovoid, flat-based jars with two handles, many featuring a raised horizontal clay “belt” around the widest part of the jar.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

On a sidewalk near home, I spotted a cardboard box with wide-mouth Ball jars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It was my favorite class because it was the only one held in a regular classroom—no jars of cow hearts, no smell of formaldehyde, no cages full of screaming monkeys.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Eataly itself sells a $25.99 Alfredo that, unlike so many jarred Alfredo sauces, does not taste as though someone dissolved Parmesan into wallpaper paste.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

The unnamed condiment originally mixed herbs and spices with buttermilk and mayonnaise and its popularity with guests led to it being jarred so they could take some home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

“Doctors. Scholars. Professors. They come to him looking for skeletons and jarred organs. Why? I don’t know. You’ll have to ask him.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But the final result shocked Rhiannon, and she said: "It was one of those really jarring moments where I thought I don't know who that person is."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

These aren’t two jarring opposites thrown together in August on an executive’s whim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

I tried not to lean against him, to grit my teeth against the jarring motion, but I could barely keep my head from rolling back.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken


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