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Recent Examples of beaker
The refining process is simple distillation but with a lot of unnecessary pouring from one beaker to another to another ... all under a carport atop a gravel driveway in the backyard of his house.
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New Atlas, 23 June 2025
Warm bodies in lab coats dissect the ingredients, studying and categorizing them in beakers and Petri dishes.
—Essence, 16 June 2025
Other shots nod to his swimming career in Dsquared2 briefs, and to his Ivy League degree with a runway-ready lab suit with a beaker while tangled in medical tubing.
—Danielle Directo-Meston, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025
He was dismayed to discover that an awful lot of the job involved moving beakers from one table to another.
—William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beaker
Noun
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This pick in particular has four flexible, food-grade silicone compartments, each with a one-cup capacity and a lid to protect against spills and freezer burn.—
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Plus, there are plenty of places along the way to stop for a snack and a cup of coffee.—
Noun
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Participants can take part in the town’s stein hoisting contest to see who can hold a full tankard of beer the longest.—
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Mockrin references the tankard by painting the Sabine women in a color palette mimicking marble statuary or ivory carvings.—
Noun
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Humans can enter a stein-holding contest, while canines can compete in a pup cup-holding challenge.—
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The popular beer-stein holding contests — with divisions for both men and women — will be back, and there’ll also be a contest to see who wears the best dirndl and lederhosen.—
Noun
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Among the silver items were a tripod jar and a silver goblet with remarkable designs of grape and honeysuckle.—
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Cup one end of a dumbbell in both hands in front of your chest with your elbows pointing down—in this position, the dumbbell and your arms will look like a goblet.—
Noun
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The whole quest for the Holy Grail—the magical chalice Jesus drank from during the Last Supper or, alternately, which Joseph used to collect Jesus’s blood at the cross—is the raison d’etre for exploits of Arthur and his knights.—
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Eli in blonde Viking braids with a purple chalice?—
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“Beaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaker. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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