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phial

noun as in bottle

noun as in vial

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The companies confirmed they are out of stock of certain quantities of the treatment, which comes in different-sized ampules or phials.

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I sought the key of the side-door in the kitchen; I sought, too, a phial of oil and a feather; I oiled the key and the lock.

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But its description of production and domestic demand as "in harmony" for "this stage" suggests a reluctance to promote the vaccination campaign too hard, until more phials are rolling down factory conveyer belts.

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Recently, however, Banville told the New York Times that he shut Black “in a room with a pistol, a phial of sleeping pills and a bottle of Scotch, and that was the end of him.”

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So I shut him in a room with a pistol, a phial of sleeping pills and a bottle of Scotch, and that was the end of him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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