tub
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The primary bathroom features dual vanities and a large soaking tub.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Will £12 for a tub eventually start to put people off though?
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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
Alan Dorfman held an Etch A Sketch over a laundry tub, picked up a hacksaw and sawed the device in half, spilling silver powder everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
I spotted one of them, bent over a plastic tub of supplies, wearing a pair of orange waders like the ones Sookie and Lester wore on the boat.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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And if you’re sending people home with leftovers, keep deli tubs or cute jars ready to fill.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
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 waded through murky, knee-deep water in the Thai capital, some venturing into a supermarket while others floated their belongings in plastic tubs.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The center’s two 50-meter pools and an adjacent therapy pool will be closed, along with two expansive hot tubs, the people said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
She scooped straight from the buy-one-get-one-free giant tubs in the freezer, globs of vanilla and chocolate, while staring at the television.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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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Goaded by time bulletins shouted through the closed door, Fanny found herself tubbed, clothed, and ready for breakfast by eight-ten.
From Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
He caught the six o’clock express for town; tubbed, shaved, and lunched, at his Club.
From The Mistress of Shenstone by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
The little garden was white and pink with roses and camellias, and the tubbed mandarins were heavy with fruit.
From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher
He then takes her to a winter wonderland for some light luging and hot tubbing.
From Time ● Jan. 14, 2014
He had the habit of personal cleanliness, had Ben, in a day when tubbing was a ceremony and in an environment that made bodily nicety difficult.
From Half Portions by Edna Ferber
I am to be denied the luxury of tubbing my own child.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
The lieutenant was in his bedroom, which opened to the left out of the sitting-room where I sat, and Dennis was tubbing in another room similarly placed on the right.
From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
The whole weight of the tubbing is made to bear on the moss, which squeezes outwards, forming a completely water-tight joint.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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