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Recent Examples of basketBrown griped about the officiating, believing the refs missed some calls at the basket.—ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 From the tangle in your computer cord to the mess your cat made of your knitting basket, knots are everywhere in daily life.—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2026 After backing into the paint with the ball, Wembanyama turned to explode toward the basket.—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Details like basket-weave patterns further tell the story of Charleston’s cultural heritage.—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for basket
The vehicle was apparently abandoned in the Hollywood Hills and towed to a police impound lot, where an employee noticed a foul smell emanating from the trunk last September and alerted authorities.
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Andi Babineau,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
There were no skeletons at the bottom, just various farm implements (an axe, a bark spud used for peeling bark off fresh tree trunks, a chain, and various minor trinkets).
There’s a parallel universe where possibly one of the greatest songs of all time, and definitely the best song ever written about the boys being back in town, was squandered off into the abyss of record-store crates and never given a chance to shine.
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Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
Pictures of the stand filed in court by the city show a hodgepodge of food ingredients, spices, cooking oils, pots, crates, and propane tanks powering a campfire stove.
Schuch paused in front of a Tetra Pak carton of Côtes du Rhône, noting that while such packaging had gone over fine in Nordic countries, French consumers had rejected it vehemently.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Just like trying to drive around while spreading ketchup on a carton of French fries, the brand’s origin story is not without its messiness.
This includes the importance of gestures such as going to retrieve from the family casket a pin that reproduces the British and American flags together, as well as those that actually fly on the streets of Washington.
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Giorgia Olivieri,
Vanity Fair,
28 Apr. 2026
The pattern holds across every region of the country, where actual casket burial rates closely match stated first-choice rates, while cremation rates far exceed them.
The roughly thirty-pound latex belly that Harbour wore to give Floyd extra heft is on full display in the show’s final episode, when Floyd and Clark strip down to their boxer briefs and dance by the pool lockers in a kind of tête-à-tête disco.
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Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
Josh Hart is dejected at his locker.
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026