thermos
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Add coffee, whether that’s hot in a thermos, iced in a travel mug or purchased from a nearby café on the way to the park, and you’re done.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
In the 1960s and 1970s, he would be up before the sun to pack a thermos of coffee and a camp lunch in one saddle bag and an acrid, tar-like screwworm killer in the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“I like to carry a small thermos with hot tea,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
The base fits in cupholders; the handle makes it easier to sip from a heavy thermos while multitasking.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2024
The wind from the thermos stirred up a nice sea spray that made a rainbow in the sunlight—perfect for an Iris- message—but our connection was still poor.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Instead of using plastic water bottles, I use reusable thermoses or, if I did use a plastic water bottle, I can reuse it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024
The thermoses “were a workhorse for the workers,” Boyer said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
If we’re dealing in clichés, these thermoses belong in the lunchbox of a guy taking a break from the assembly line or in the hands of a construction worker.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2024
Millennial women stocked up on the Stanley thermoses their dads used to use, one of a range of female-powered consumer fads.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
There are a few other small groups—some with chairs like us, others with blankets and thermoses of hot drinks.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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