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thermos

[thur-muhs] / ˈθɜr məs /
NOUN
canteen
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NOUN
thermos bottle
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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

You could drop off breakfast in the form of convenience-store pastries and a thermos of hot coffee to share.

From Salon Jan. 19, 2026

At regular intervals, he poured himself a cup of steaming hot chai from his thermos.

From Slate Jan. 3, 2026

The thermos still sells on the Stanley website for $36.

From Seattle Times Jan. 12, 2024

He pulled a thermos from the bag, then poured cider into two paper cups.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

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

They collected blaze-yellow protective gear from lockers in the back, donned hard hats and tugged at thermoses of coffee and cans of Rockstar — readying for another long and grueling day.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2023

It was a cool fall morning and families sat on blankets or newspapers in the grass, passing around thermoses of tea.

From Slate Sep. 20, 2022

Above her desk, cluttered with coffee thermoses and file folders, she has taped a reminder.

From Seattle Times Sep. 4, 2022

Below, on the overcrowded sidewalks, more than two and a half million people, armed with beach chairs, picnic baskets, and thermoses, solemnly watched hundreds of floats pass by.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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