tub
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The sprawling en suite bathroom includes dual vanities, a free-standing soaking tub, and a sizable walk-in shower.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ask one of those AI agents that isn’t plotting to take down civilization and boil us all in a giant tub of bacon grease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
“A walk to the Grove, a movie over a shared tub of popcorn, and a stop at the Kibitz Room on the way home.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But at £32.99 for a 420g tub, she's feeling the high price and tries to make the product stretch.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
As the tub filled with bubbles in rainbow colors, Danny wished he could somehow tell Pili to hold on and wait for him.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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These companies saw hundreds of customers queueing to create their own dessert pot, despite it not being a particularly cheap treat, with tubs costing as much as £12.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos trudged through murky floodwaters in Bangkok's east -- knee-deep in some areas of a grocery store parking lot -- floating their belongings in plastic tubs alongside them, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I set up my cutting board at the bar in front of the television, clean and chop everything, then stash it in labeled deli tubs.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
There are hot tubs and cold tubs and a players-only sauna, while every locker is outfitted with a leather zero gravity chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was easy to tell who had availed themselves of the baths drawn for them, because their tubs were coated in the brown scum of weeks of unwash.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Then I turned the corner: Freezers lined with beautiful tubbed sauces and pastas.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked Willett Children for seeming recently tubbed and scrubbed yet true-to-life.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then he tubbed and dressed, and had a comfortable breakfast all by himself; for he was too experienced a traveller by this to let melancholy partings spoil his appetite.
From For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War by Walter Paget
Arrived at his club he shaved, tubbed, changed his clothes, and, leaving his 'cello in charge of the hall porter, sallied out with his manuscript to call upon his publisher.
From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
Have your prospective souvenir tree tubbed and the tub sunk in the ground, of course, to its rim.
From The Amateur Garden by George Washington Cable
He then takes her to a winter wonderland for some light luging and hot tubbing.
From Time ● Jan. 14, 2014
The crowning event of the season of tubbing is a wine, to which are invited all boating-men in college, and the representative athletes in other sports.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
During the Morrison wine which ended the season of tubbing on the river, the captain of the Balliol fifteen threw his arms about me, and besought me to play on the team.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
“Not much use tubbing if one has to walk a hundred yards after it,” he is saying.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
And then, in strong contrast, are those who train enough in all conscience with 'gloves,' single-stick, sculls, and all suchlike appliances, and whose works take the form of tubbing, volunteering, and a general jovial philanthropy.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant