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pouch

[pouch] / paʊtʃ /
NOUN
soft container, often made of cloth or skin
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“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 staffer for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered a Kennedy aide a tobacco pouch from a custom gold tin at a dinner in Washington this spring.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

The first school in Wales to introduce a pouch system in September 2023, head teacher Ian Gerrard called the impact "nothing short of transformational" when the ban was introduced for the whole school at once.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

Tucked into a pocket, the muslin pouch has kept my wool winter overcoat smelling fresh—and reminding me of Paris—all season.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 14, 2026

Ma sighed and turned back to the icebox, stowing away the money pouch.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

These pouches function as emotional first-aid kits, stocked with items meant to ease acute symptoms of anxiety, from worry or dread to a racing heart and upset stomach.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

Those include rival Rogue’s mango-flavored pouches and Velo’s wild berry and dragon fruit flavors.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Children who need access to their phones during the day for medical reasons, such as to control an insulin pump, will instead use Velcro-sealed pouches.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

In Essex, another school has just invested in magnetically locked pouches, to replace its previous out-of-sight policy.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

I put the jewelry in special silk pouches.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Leask finished with magnificent figures of 4-17, while Mark Watt chipped in with 2-24 as Munsey pouched four catches.

From BBC Feb. 9, 2026

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

African giant pouched rats are the largest rats in the world.

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

Diverticula may, and usually do, consist in a pouching by herniation, of the whole thickness of the esophageal wall; or they may be herniations of the mucosa between the muscular layers.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier




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