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tray

[tray] / treɪ /
NOUN
platter
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“There’s some point in which memories become dreams,” Cooks said of the forms that gradually cohere, shimmering, like film in a developing tray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Away from the dock, I sat down with a tray of oysters and a stabby, plastic-handled knife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Tanya came through from the kitchen with another tray of small things on sticks–olives, chunks of pineapple. Our eyes met. ‘I’m going through a ‘70s thing,’ she said.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Then a smiling man walks in carrying another tray.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Lady Constance reached into her reticule and extracted the same square, cream-colored envelope that Penelope had spotted on the mail tray the previous day.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood


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