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pouch

[pouch] / paʊtʃ /
NOUN
soft container, often made of cloth or skin
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Despite the "frightening" situation, Marley remained calm and used a mobile phone kept in a waterproof pouch to contact his nan on shore, who called 999.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

“Let’s not have him shake his head,” said Rae, as she leaned closer toward the screen displaying the vertical video feed of the father eating from a bright yellow pouch of Gushers.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

A pilot program launched in September to speed pouch product reviews was going well, the agency said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

EV batteries come in different forms—cylindrical, pouch and prismatic—but grid-scale batteries tend to just be prismatic, a rectangular shape that can be stacked.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

Wolf wriggled and snapped until Torak manage to explain that he had to stay with Renn, who settled the matter by producing a handful of dried lingonberries from her food pouch.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Kamel Chibli, vice president of the Occitanie regional council in southern France, said digital pouches and lockers used to store smartphones cost the regional authorities around 40,000 euros for a high school with 1,500 students.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

Parents and guardians will be kept updated on when they can expect to receive pouches for their children.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Singers like Phoebe Bridgers and Alicia Keys have required their concert attendees to use lock pouches - sealed bags that allow people to hold on to their phones without being able to access them.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

In recent years the company has invested in manufacturing across the U.S. to produce the pouches, after consumer shortages.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Beneath his doleful eyes the skin was already darkening in pouches.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He estimates roughly 85 CoreWeave employees have been pouched by OpenAI and Anthropic this year alone.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Sudharsan was badly dropped by Ben Duckett at deep gully off Josh Tongue, only for Stokes, swinging the ball, to induce a loose shot that was pouched by Zak Crawley.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2025

Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has uncovered 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance since 2021, charity Apopo, which trains the animals, said in a statement.

From BBC Apr. 4, 2025

There are several other reasons African giant pouched rats are a good choice for fighting illegal wildlife trade.

From NewsForKids.net Nov. 28, 2024

Her hair was mostly grey, now, and her face was pouched, and wrinkled at the throat and eyes and at the corners of the mouth.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

The district has left the choreography of pouching — and policing — to the schools.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2025

Two overs later De Villiers fell in similar fashion for 40, David Warner pouching an awkward catch at point.

From BBC Nov. 11, 2012

When Castro addressed an election-eve rally on Jan. 9, all his 71 years were recorded on his face: a beard grown gray, deep bags pouching out below red-rimmed eyes, age spots dotting his forehead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he opened his eyes and raised his head, pouching out his cheeks and sniffing at the two rabbits beside him.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

All this time Widdicombe was taking out his distance-glasses, taking off his reading-glasses and pouching them and putting them away, and putting on his distance-glasses, and 17 from force of habit putting their pouch away.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh




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