as in jug
a handled container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or a spout
please bring me the pitcher of lemonade from the table
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Recent Examples of pitcher
Whereas florals frolic within large-scale clovers on platters, pitchers, and cake plates, the motif appears as a more refined border on cups and saucers.
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Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
Keiper said Torrey Pines recently held a schoolwide assembly with a video presentation including clips from San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove and athletes from San Diego State University’s basketball program and the National Football League.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Bleacher Report's Zachary Rymer recently predicted the Red Sox would trade Casas to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Pirates star pitcher Jared Jones.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The Phillies could provide Kepler and Brandon Marsh, another lefty who has not hit lefty pitchers, with regular at-bats in the season’s initial months before determining whether one of them has to be platooned.
—Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 21 Jan. 2025
Keiper said Torrey Pines recently held a schoolwide assembly with a video presentation including clips from San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove and athletes from San Diego State University’s basketball program and the National Football League.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
Bleacher Report's Zachary Rymer recently predicted the Red Sox would trade Casas to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Pirates star pitcher Jared Jones.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
The Phillies could provide Kepler and Brandon Marsh, another lefty who has not hit lefty pitchers, with regular at-bats in the season’s initial months before determining whether one of them has to be platooned.
—Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pitcher
Noun
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Bring gloves, utility scissors and a clean milk jug.—
Staff report,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Dec. 2022
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Councell tapped a plastic jug the size of a garden shed containing sugar water, nearby another full of corn syrup.—
Bill Weir,
CNN,
12 Dec. 2022
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Hawley actually raised his fist in support of the rioters and printed the image on a cup for sale on his website.—
Aquilino Gonell,
New York Daily News,
26 Jan. 2025
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This recipe brings the warmth and decadence of a cup of hot cocoa into grab-and-go treats that have a brownie-like texture that can’t be topped.—
Krissy Tiglias,
Southern Living,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Two roaches died in a kitchen storage cove where bottle drinks sat.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2025
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In 2001, Eden gave PEOPLE an exclusive home tour, which included her collection of genie bottles.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Paintings of elaborate feasts hang alongside beautiful and unique dishes, ewers and platters, and glimpses of recipes through historical cookbooks.—
Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Sep. 2024
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Among these are an Indo-Portuguese brass and mother-of-pearl ewer from the early 17th century, and Carolina’s favorite: a portrait of Doña Isidora Navarro, a daughter of a large, upper-class Spanish family.—
Caitie Kelly Kin Woo Kate Guadagnino Nicole DeMarco Megan O’Sullivan,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2024
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No detail was overlooked — down to the drink’s flagon.—
Violet Goldstone,
WWD,
12 Sep. 2024
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Their crop: wine, so fine the poet Dante sang its praises and medieval kings and popes guzzled it by the flagon.—
Julia Buckley,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Nov. 2023
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“Pitcher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitcher. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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