mug
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The former first minister also told a podcast she would not visit Peter Murrell, 61, in prison and she felt like a "mug" for continuing to care about him.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
So to all you souvenir snobs, put that in your Starbucks mug and drink it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Each send-up is funny for at least an entire minute, a lifetime when you’re watching Marlon’s Shorty mug for the camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Instead of the one-click default to your laptop’s last opened tab, you opened Etsy and bought a ceramic mug from a maker you’d been following on Instagram.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
I have a hunch that even this mug of cider is because of it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Mostly cheap, guilty pleasures, from coasters to Christmas ornaments to, yes, shelves of Starbucks mugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Eight Le Creuset mugs were photographed in a drawer under what appears to be the kitchen counter and next to an oven.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
And then I just like to sit in silence while it’s still dark out, while sipping two mugs of coffee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Others have posted videos and photos on social media of themselves breaking Starbucks mugs.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
They had already put down their mugs of tea and half-eaten sandwiches.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Spencer Pratt wasn’t mugged by reality, but it literally burned his house down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Also: What kind of dingus gets mugged on Fifth Avenue?
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
Ultrapure-water projects are big, one-off beasts that everybody and his brother wants to build, so even the smart operators can watch their margins get mugged the minute capital spending gets a head cold.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
When the data value exists only in your pod, it is like the difference in the kind of attack one would get on a bank versus you getting mugged on the street.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Meanwhile, in our homeroom row, fancy-pants Kaylee Vine and Nellie Abbott are making eyes at my shirt like it once mugged them in a dark alley.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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Outside in the streets, the cosplayers enjoyed mugging for the cameras or taking selfies and laughing at themselves and others while interacting with their favorite celebrities.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
She admitted telling police in 2013 she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging, but later found it had not been taken.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
It all certainly casts a spell, but the narrative devolves into atmospheric mush interpolated with too many images of Hathaway mugging and posing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
They teased the grand reopening with Instagram photos of Bella Hadid astride a horse and videos of influencer types mugging for the camera in 10-gallon hats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
I stand and Scrappy joins me in mean mugging Dalton.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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