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Bake in Alternating Cups A muffin tin can be useful for turning out 12 party-ready appetizers in one go.
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
The sheet that had been covering me was sopping wet and smelled strangely of my body, tin cans, and cayenne pepper.
—Gil Cuadros, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2024
Visitors can play with a tin can telephone or connect to the museum’s general store on a working candlestick phone.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
And as the tension and fear mount, being trapped in a glorified tin can in the North Sea drives the survivors to paranoid extremes.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
The sheet that had been covering me was sopping wet and smelled strangely of my body, tin cans, and cayenne pepper.
—Gil Cuadros, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2024
Visitors can play with a tin can telephone or connect to the museum’s general store on a working candlestick phone.
—Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2024
And as the tension and fear mount, being trapped in a glorified tin can in the North Sea drives the survivors to paranoid extremes.
—Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Tin can.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tin%20can. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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