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Recent Examples of basket
The Midway store, which had stopped stocking handheld shopping baskets, frequently ran out of shopping carts in recent months, despite a major restocking in April, and blamed the shortage on cart theft.
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Wrigley Field’s basket is one-of-a-kind in baseball.
—Dhani Joseph, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Rustic hanging baskets Mounting baskets in your bathroom is a great way to hold essential items like towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and more.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
Fears parlayed three offensive rebounds into multiple baskets against Indiana in his Sin City finale.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Wrigley Field’s basket is one-of-a-kind in baseball.
—Dhani Joseph, New York Times, 22 July 2025
Rustic hanging baskets Mounting baskets in your bathroom is a great way to hold essential items like towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and more.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
Fears parlayed three offensive rebounds into multiple baskets against Indiana in his Sin City finale.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basket
Noun
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But the stranger pulled a large ax from the trunk of her vehicle, deputies said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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And the parents who will retrieve their colorful trunks, but not their girls.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Check with your town first because many now offer composting programs with bins and drop-off services that make getting started even easier.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 July 2025
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Drop-off bins will be located in the main hallway at the church.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The Roadrunner is built to be launched out of its own packing crate; before the test flight, the engineers placed one of those crates in the scrub, as tumbleweeds skittered by.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Crate Cover This crate cover provides privacy, security and creates a cozy atmosphere to help reduce anxious behaviors like barking and chewing. Crate Pad This machine-washable crate pad functions as a mattress but can double as a dog bed.—
Kelsey Monstrola,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The second thing, seconds later, is to thrust a carton of cherry juice into his face.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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If the peanut butter jar wasn’t quite secured, or the carton of oat milk sprang a leak, you wouldn’t be left with a sticky mess for long.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Though nothing outside could compete with the moment a uniformed attendant arrived bearing a two-tiered, Tiffany-blue box filled with desserts, accompanied by a souvenir menu with pop-up paper cutouts.—
Naomi Tomky,
Travel + Leisure,
26 July 2025
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On Thursday, Israel’s military took journalists to the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing where hundreds of boxes of aid were on pallets filling a huge lot.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
26 July 2025
Noun
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With the new process, if a passenger was flying from LHR to Seattle, for example, with a stop first in Dallas, their bag would be checked all the way through to their final destination.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
24 July 2025
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Some of these products are tiny, inexpensive, and can even fit in your golf bag pocket.—
Scott Kramer,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
Noun
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Other green burials, which avoid embalming chemicals and use biodegradable caskets, already are legal in Minnesota.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
16 July 2025
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Caisson units provide horses and soldiers to pull caskets at military funerals.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
9 July 2025
Noun
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John Rave had a new jersey hanging in his locker on Friday afternoon.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
19 July 2025
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Oh, and Frank ends up taking a leak in a school locker.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
9 July 2025
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“Basket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basket. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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