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receptacle

noun as in container for disposal, storage

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The child’s body appeared to have been left near trash receptacle bins, according to video footage captured on Citizen.

Deputies said it was “currently unknown” how the suspects transported all 85 fish — some large — in the small receptacles.

The Conservatives are still tarnished in many voters' eyes by their governing record, meaning that the receptacle for voters' immediate frustration with Labour, in Runcorn and elsewhere, is Reform UK.

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Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri described her collection as "demonstrating how clothing is a receptacle that affirms cultural, aesthetic and social codes".

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L.A.’s devastating fires are only the latest episode in which the ocean has served as an unappreciated receptacle for trash and hazards originating on land.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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