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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.

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

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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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