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Recent Examples of pail
Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense.
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Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
The best compost bins used to be strictly utilitarian—plastic, bulky DIY pails usually banished under the sink or to the far corner of the yard.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
The pail uses dual-seal technology to lock away diaper smells and is compatible with any standard trash bag.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense.
—Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
The best compost bins used to be strictly utilitarian—plastic, bulky DIY pails usually banished under the sink or to the far corner of the yard.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
The pail uses dual-seal technology to lock away diaper smells and is compatible with any standard trash bag.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense.
—Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pail
bucket
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At Deep Spring Farm in Alachua, Florida, visitors can fill their buckets with organic blueberries before settling in for a picnic beneath the shade of a giant live oak.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
1 June 2025
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Different fragments of the bucket were uncovered in past excavations, but this latest discovery gave researchers more to study.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
29 May 2025
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“Pail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pail. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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