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Agree with your wife on a “fun-money” budget — a pot of money you can dip tino for leisure activities without regret, rumination or recrimination.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Groups trying to protect red squirrels are being invited to bid for funding from a £250,000 pot.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Israeli food isn’t the world’s only culinary melting pot, but it may be the most misunderstood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“As a Texan, I am proud of the cultural melting pot that makes our state so great and this collaboration is such a fun example of that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
She walked to the pot by the stove where she kept the utensils.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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Divers from the expedition brought the pots up to the surface, where they are now being carefully conserved after so many thousands of years underwater.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
But the challenge is not just finding new pots of money, she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
"And in this case, there could have been a more meaningful reason behind it. By tying the homeland pottery into this enchainment, they're bringing those pots with them into the next generation."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Woodall returned at the cafe’s request, filming the stained, decaying ceiling and the water-catching buckets and coffee pots on the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“We’re supposed to be turning pots and pans into Spitfires, removing distributors, rationing tea. What use are precautions if no one will mind them?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Others—depicting grinning clowns, crying women and morphing objects and creatures, including human figures potted like plants—recall children’s drawings and John Tenniel’s illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Depicted with potted plants, ample relaxation room, and chic luggage storage under Saarinen tulip tables, the people mover, the video promises, “will perhaps be best known for its convenience and its feeling of luxury.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
If you could have seen inner Mark when he didn't reach the pink, he was doing somersaults and then I potted a good yellow.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Residents can also keep spaced-out potted plants under this height, as long as they’re easily movable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
Suddenly where Nico di Angelo had been standing was a potted plant about five feet tall, with drooping green leaves, tufts of silk, and half a dozen ripe yellow ears of corn.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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She created Petersham Nurseries Café, with a dirt floor, wobbly old chairs, secondhand cooking gear installed in a former potting shed, and a simple menu based on whatever was growing in the adjacent garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
But Mrs Bayley points out that the process is remarkably similar to what amateur gardeners do in a potting shed, taking a cutting from a much-loved rose to grow another.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
And it’s true that Anne, currently addicted to playing some farm game on her iPad and not using the potting shed, complete with kiln, that Nick built her, has let joy leak from her life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
“You have to do your homework and decide what’s right for you. You can always raise food in potting soil in containers or raised beds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025
Then she said, “Did you go to the potting shed, like I told you?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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