pot

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Take, for instance, a pot of white beans built for speed.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

When you start collecting Social Security at 64, you’ll add another $4,100 to the pot, which leaves you with a more modest shortfall of $1,800 a month.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Officials decided to sweeten the pot by offering to export the “Taiwan model” of high-tech industrial clusters to America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Some, but not all, families see a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if their child makes it as a professional and heap enormous pressure on their shoulders to succeed.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

When you are the frog in the pot, you sometimes congratulate yourself for surviving the heat, failing to notice the temperature increasing.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman