kettle
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Police may close roads, establish perimeters, kettle crowds, redirect traffic, block movement, and call those acts public order.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The problem is similar to mineral scale building up inside a tea kettle or clogging a shower head over time, except seawater contains far higher concentrations of dissolved salts.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
"They started coming from everywhere, from the wi-fi router, under the kettle, the toaster and all the switchboards. We would cook and they would keep coming from the sockets, from under the microwave."
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Yet within the time it might take to boil water in a kettle, the chaos had cooled enough for a structure to emerge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
“I’ll be right back as soon as I get the kettle filled.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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The family initially boiled kettles to fill up buckets to wash and clean the dishes, but they've now invested in a camping shower.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
There’s a room in an Estée Lauder-owned facility on Long Island where kelp swirls around in giant kettles while scientists pump sounds of the ocean to help unlock its healing powers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
"My baby son has been having the poshest baths - six bottles of mineral water and two kettles," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
At Kris Kringl, a downtown shop where “it’s Christmas all year long,” one can find Christmas villages, Christmas-themed cuckoo clocks, Christmas-themed cookie jars, Christmas-themed table runners, “Deck the Halls” tea kettles and much more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
In the center were three huge kettles, each four feet tall, hung over beds of hot coals.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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