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tin

[tin] / tɪn /


NOUN
package
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"We use copper and tin and one more ingredient which is secret. Even though it's in very small quantities, it gives the cymbal a different character in terms of consistency and sound," he told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

The Mets began the season with an even bigger payroll than L.A.’s and has done nothing but make New York City want to kick a tin can down the street.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

King Charles, who became patron of the RHS in 2024, and the Queen presented awards including to a display called The Queen Bee made from upcycled containers – with tin can bees.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Let the pastries cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then gently loosen them with a small offset spatula or butter knife.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

He paid triple the usual fare to book passage on a ship that was already packed snug as a tin of herring.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Maybe the pantry has an easier time earning our affection because it sits there so beautifully, all jars and tins and labels facing forward.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

As well as offering the few tins it had secured as a prize for its readers, it reported that thanks to “quiet diplomacy” between the magazine and AB Foods, negotiations are advancing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Across the city in a suburb of Beirut, kitchen shelves were stacked with sauces and tins crowded the walls as volunteers prepared green beans and fried rice balls.

From Barron's May 25, 2026

Frustrated by traditional candle formats, he launched a line of portable candles packaged in small, tuna-like tins designed to make “home follow you wherever you go.”

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

I’m in the kitchen, greasing muffin tins for my mother.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Keep foods like dried and canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, olive oil, and a variety of whole grains on hand so you always have something to cook with.

From MarketWatch Aug. 16, 2026

Last year, Rainbow Tomatoes Garden, a family-owned business that claims to offer the world’s largest online selection of tinned fish, paused shipping of its salt-cured anchovy fillets.

From Salon May 28, 2026

Pasta and tinned goods, she tells us, have become a key staple for the roughly 2,000 remaining population.

From BBC May 6, 2026

The shop, based in premises leased from the Royal British Legion, sells fresh and tinned food, alongside household goods at low prices, with no judgement.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

Their heads might have been tinned upside down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

After the war in 1922, he bought the business of J. Lesher & Son and dealt in plumbing, heating, roof tinning, spouting and stoves.

From Washington Times Nov. 17, 2018

Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped make tinned meat a part of the British diet; through its public lectures, it introduced the nation to such modern wonders as the Edison phonograph.

From Time Magazine Archive

He estimated his process would be a third cheaper than tinning.

From Time Magazine Archive

First will come hot and cold rolling mills and a tinning operation, which will cost a total of $89.8 million and have an annual capacity of 555,000 tons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The starboard wing was heavily engaged, however, and the center had shattered under the stones of those trebuchets, some captains tinning downstream, others veering to port, anything to escape that crushing rain.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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