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Recent Examples of saucer
Gold pools out of the deer’s neck and drips onto a delicate saucer adorned with flowers.
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Hazlitt, 23 Dec. 2025
Empty the saucer if there’s any water in it after 30 minutes to keep the plant from sitting in water and developing root rot.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2025
The wide, shallow bowls of Ferm Living’s champagne saucers allow your beverage to diffuse the aromatics and flavor notes generously around your palate.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2025
The fleet-footed left-shot defenceman tries some ambitious things in the offensive zone — waist-high backhand saucer passes at the blue line come to mind — but his offensive ability is real.
—Murat Ates, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saucer
plate
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The solution removes moisture from the nail plate to ensure a long-lasting finish and contains biotin to strengthen the nails.—
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One of the license-plate-reader cameras near East County Line Road and South Colorado Boulevard in Highlands Ranch alerted Douglas County deputies to a match for the suspect’s vehicle, Weekly said.—
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“Saucer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saucer. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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