pot
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The Super Bowl is perennially the most watched TV event of the year, bringing in a huge pot of revenue for the media company holding the rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Not the exact recipe, but the form: toast, pasta, a frittata, a rice bowl, a substantial salad, perhaps a pot of soup or stew.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
It worked to pare down menus and offer dinner deals, and rolled out items like slow-braised pot roast and hash-brown casserole shepherd’s pie.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The single person, or the lone vegetarian in a house full of carnivores, might not eat a whole pot of soup in one sitting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“I’ll just tell them that we’re looking for a pot of gold,” Papa said.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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Cubans who once feared government reprisals now criticize the country's leaders and have taken to banging pots and pans in regular nighttime protests.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
They also divide money into different pots, including savings and smaller funds for predictable spending like haircuts.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
She noted that one elder from Kwaaymii Laguna Band of Indians responded with concerns about mud pots and other resources in the area, but it was more than five months after the consultation period closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Demonstrators burn trash in the streets and bang pots and pans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I gladly—very gladly—help load bedding, tents, pots, and pans onto the longboat to be taken ashore.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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One such element she shared in her posts is a large brown boucle and wood chair that sits atop a beige rug, alongside a large potted plant.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
And it also shined a spotlight on Gabbard’s effectiveness in her position, since she basically serves the function of a potted plant.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
Resting on a table behind him are a potted flower and the Grammy Award that Megadeth won in 2017 for metal performance for the title track from the 2016 album “Dystopia.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
There were no potted histories, no schematic definition of concepts, no leading questions to wake up sleepy students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
There’s a potted plant on the desk, a pen-holder set, papers.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Depending on what they learn, the fix for future planting projects could be as simple as mixing a bit of native earth into the potting soil where the Joshua tree seedlings are grown.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
In the penultimate frame of the match, O'Sullivan looked on course for a maximum 147 break, potting nine reds and eight blacks, before opting to go for a blue in a break of 113.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
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
We are still waiting for the potting soil, so Dell and I carry the three machines up to #28 and right away I start to take them apart.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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