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bottle

[bot-l] / ˈbɒt l /


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I greeted the door woman, bought a bottle of water, grabbed a bar stool against the far wall, and opened the book in progress on my phone until the show started.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

Testing revealed that water samples from her bottle contained levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium far above the federal limit for drinking water, according to court documents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

He then stalked San Francisco’s steep streets waving a medicine bottle full of gold dust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"As a man you could just bottle it up... it will fester and grow and it can very quickly turn very, very dark," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

He goes to take another sip of his water and groans because his one little bottle is empty.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

In Kawasaki, on the southern outskirts of Tokyo, hundreds of machines at a venue operated by the specialist chain Benex are filled with bottles of soda, bags of sweets, and detergent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The spread already offers plenty of visual interest: bread piled high, bowls of herbs, cheerful wedges of citrus, golden cornbread, glossy bottles of oil and vinegar.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

When those 14 drivers pulled into the pit lane before the start, boos broke out and bottles were thrown on to the track as thousands made for the exits.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

In China, despite a sharp drop in quarterly sales, Pernod sees positive signs in a return to growth in depletions, a measure of demand for its bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

I steer them out and shut the door to the bedroom, and in a few minutes, the plates and bottles and purses are collected and the group files one by one out the door.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

The "Be Ready" campaign encourages households to stock up on supplies to survive for three days, including non-perishable food, bottled water, a torch, sleeping bags, and first aid items.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In 2024, the Columbia team showed that the amount of microplastics in commercially-available bottled drinking water was 10 to 100 times greater than previously believed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

She had bottled up her emotions for months, afraid that leaning in to them would draw unwanted attention and distract her from the task of helping her son.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

So, perhaps the biggest lesson here is that recovery cannot be bottled and sold.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

There had been bottled water in one of the closets.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Coca-Cola has outperformed in part because it handed its bottling back to independent operators and focused headquarters on building brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Pepsi needs to stop tinkering and consider more fundamental changes, including a spinoff of its bottling operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Those spirits look poised to benefit from that same workaround tied to bulk shipments and U.S.-based bottling operations.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

It’s distilled and matured in the Canadian province of Manitoba, but then shipped in large containers to bottling facilities in the U.S. for distribution to American customers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers


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