plastic
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By luck, the mattresses were new, and still wrapped in plastic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
But I am frustrated as a medical doctor that a complex issue like fertility—and the trumped-up threat of small penises and “population collapse”—was hijacked without scientific merit as the main argument against plastic.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
Across from the booth and above the bar, a pink-and-white television made from an iPad inside a plastic foam cooler plays old cereal commercials and clips from “I Love Lucy” and “Bewitched” on repeat.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
It's a message at odds with the hand-written sign on the clear plastic sheet taped across the empty doorframe of Zvi's blast-damaged balcony.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
After you made popcorn, you could use the plastic dome as a bowl.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
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