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"Would you like another cup of tea",
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"Verb",
"He cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted at us.",
"I had to cup my hand to my ear in order to hear him.",
"He cupped his mouth with his hands and shouted at us.",
"I sat with my chin cupped in my hand.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"So time to give it a nudge in a better direction with a cup or more of stimulation. \u2014 Ed Silverman, STAT , 28 June 2022",
"The vehicle\u2019s keys were in the cup holder in the console. \u2014 cleveland , 13 June 2022",
"The other fixtures, those necessary accessories \u2014 the soap dish, the cup holder, the towel rack, the toilet paper holder \u2014 are tile-glazed too. \u2014 Krystal Chang, Los Angeles Times , 9 June 2022",
"Ford watched as the man placed the card in his cup holder. \u2014 Emily Davies, BostonGlobe.com , 2 June 2022",
"The chair has a cup holder on the armrest, as well as a pocket on the side to store a phone or sunscreen close by. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 19 May 2022",
"Recharging takes just 90 minutes, and extra features include bright dual-LED headlights for illuminating your mowing path, a USB charging port, and a cup holder. \u2014 Better Homes & Gardens , 4 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a bike stem and vise-grip pliers on the passenger seat, a few rolls of film in the cup holder, and biodegradable glitter inside the console, where a bottle of it exploded. \u2014 The Editors, Outside Online , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The travel cup holder's hands-free design is simple to use: Just wrap it around your suitcase handle and secure the hook and loop closure. \u2014 Carly Totten, Travel + Leisure , 15 Dec. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Add one tablespoon of yeast solution to cup number three. \u2014 Svenja Lohner, Scientific American , 10 Nov. 2016",
"To cup two, add one tablespoon of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide solution. \u2014 Svenja Lohner, Scientific American , 10 Nov. 2016",
"Simply cup your hands around the lock and blow into it for a few minutes. \u2014 Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Instead, butterfly wings bend, which researchers suspected might cup air between them to strengthen their downstroke. \u2014 Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 Dec. 2021",
"The Headphone Table, imagined in 1978 and recreated in 2017, invites visitors to sit and cup their hands to their ears, with elbows on the table, to hear\u2014or be part of\u2014a humming that rumbles through the heavy table. \u2014 Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Oct. 2021",
"Working with one piece at a time, cup your hand over the dough, keeping the sides of your palm on the work surface. \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 16 Mar. 2021",
"My hands grip his unruly brown hair, his hands cup my face. \u2014 Anastasia Garcia, Glamour , 11 Mar. 2021",
"After all, these sneaky chemicals can infiltrate foods and beverages at any point in their journey from farm to fork or from manufacturing plant to cup or bottle. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2021"
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"Middle English cuppe , from Old English, from Late Latin cuppa cup, alteration of Latin cupa tub \u2014 more at hive":"Noun"
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"\u02c8k\u0259p"
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"the colonial dining room features a double-door corner cupboard for the family's finest china",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On a busy night, a fresh batch of pasta tossed with our favorite jar of sauce seems like the best option, especially when time is of the essence and the cupboard is bare. \u2014 Robin Miller, USA TODAY , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Indianapolis has now stocked their cupboard full at the tight end position for this upcoming season and beyond. \u2014 Evan Sidery, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
"In an earnings call Tuesday, Raytheon chief executive Gregory J. Hayes said the cupboard is virtually bare. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Apr. 2022",
"On a busy night, a fresh batch of pasta tossed with our favorite jar of sauce seems like the best option, especially when time is of the essence and the cupboard is bare. \u2014 Robin Miller, USA TODAY , 5 Apr. 2022",
"For several years, Kempton kept the Goya hidden behind a bedroom cupboard , removing and disposing of its frame. \u2014 Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The Bears have new leadership heading into the 2022 season, and general manager Ryan Poles will attempt to restock the cupboard for first-year head coach Matt Eberflus. \u2014 Steve Silverman, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Now the cupboard is stocked again with some complicating factors. \u2014 Michael Casagrande | Mcasagrande@al.com, al , 21 Apr. 2022",
"At around $38, this high-quality pan with a nonstick finish is a worthy, affordable addition to any baker\u2019s cupboard and is made to last. \u2014 Erin Jeanne Mcdowell, Bon App\u00e9tit , 15 Apr. 2022"
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"The evidence revealed the cupidity of the company's directors.",
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"Call the content misdemeanor populism, representing in each instance the recourse of someone motivated by need or only petty cupidity . \u2014 Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker , 4 Apr. 2022",
"In Williams\u2019s telling, the capitalists turned against slavery out of cupidity rather than humanity. \u2014 James Oakes, The New York Review of Books , 23 Mar. 2021",
"What keeps us from tuning out is the infectious energy of an ensemble that delights in its characters\u2019 displays of cupidity and stupidity, and the storybook ingenuity of the physical production. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 7 Mar. 2018",
"And if anyone shall be led by his cupidity or arrogance to break this truce, by the authority of God and with the sanction of this Council he shall be anathematized. \u2014 James Carroll, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2017",
"The cupidity of the government and white real estate developers leaves working-class locals, women especially, with few options. \u2014 Jennifer Senior, New York Times , 29 June 2016",
"Cupidity and corruption perform, year after year, their reverse magic. \u2014 Dwight Garner, New York Times , 10 Mar. 2016"
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"Middle English cupidite , from Anglo-French cupidit\u00e9 , from Latin cupiditat-, cupiditas \u2014 more at covet":""
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"kyu\u0307-\u02c8pi-d\u0259-t\u0113"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1905, in the meaning defined above":""
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Customers lined up to make gallons of the treat disappear, one plastic cupful at a time. \u2014 Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Scooping out a cupful of Skippy proved the most challenging task. \u2014 Monti Carlo, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 Sep. 2021",
"To cook, heat a light coating of canola oil in a nonstick skillet or griddle over medium-low, then ladle in 1/3 cupfuls of batter, being careful not to crowd the pan. \u2014 New York Times , 1 May 2020",
"Sauce isn\u2019t doled out by the spoonfuls, but by the cupfuls . \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 10 Oct. 2019",
"One of Chambers\u2019 Facebook friends ran with it, venting about minorities having more rights than the majority and then pouring a cupful of crazy about needing a revolution. \u2014 al.com , 6 June 2019",
"Back at home, my toddler will devour a Mason jar full of oatmeal for breakfast or guzzle 6 ounces of whole milk and immediately demand another cupful . \u2014 Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com , 31 Jan. 2018",
"If the soup gets too thick, add water or flavorful liquids by half- cupfuls . \u2014 Judy Walker, NOLA.com , 9 Jan. 2018",
"Adding \u00bc cupful at a time, whisk in one-third of hot cream mixture, then whisk egg mixture into remaining cream mixture in saucepan. \u2014 Vivian Howard, Bon Appetit , 19 Apr. 2017"
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a colorless crystalline salt C 6 H 5 N(NO)ONH 4 that is a precipitant for copper and iron from solutions and is used also in the analysis of other metals especially of the uranium group : the ammonium salt of N -nitroso- N -phenyl-hydroxylamine":[]
},
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"\u02c8k(y)\u00fcp-",
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"International Scientific Vocabulary cup ric + ferr ic + -on":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040845"
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"noun"
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"so called from its cup-shaped indusium":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051727"
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"French coupelle , diminutive of coupe cup, from Late Latin cuppa":"Noun"
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"first_known_use":{
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"1644, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093152"
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"type":[
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-124327"
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"type":[
"noun"
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": refinement (as of gold or silver) in a cupel by exposure to high temperature in a blast of air by which the unwanted metals are oxidized":[]
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"-\u02ccpe-"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The invention of cupellation some 3,000 years later allowed people to separate silver and gold from impure metals, releasing elements like copper, tin and lead, which became partly vaporized. \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Aug. 2021",
"As Rossella Tercatin reports for the Jerusalem Post, the team found that bones at the site started showing traces of pollution about 5,000 years ago, around the time people first began refining metals through a process known as cupellation . \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Aug. 2021"
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"first_known_use":{
"circa 1691, in the meaning defined above":""
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"plural noun"
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": a family of widely distributed, usually evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs having small, flattened, scalelike or sometimes needlelike leaves and including the cypress, juniper, and arborvitae \u2013 \u2014 see callitris , chamaecyparis , cryptomeria , cunninghamia , fitzroya , libocedrus , taiwania , thuja , thujopsis":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205533"
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"adjective"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224658"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a cup-shaped coral formed by a single polyp":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233856"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a large genus of American plants (family Lythraceae) with opposite leaves and solitary slightly irregular flowers \u2014 see cigar flower , waxweed":[]
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"\u02c8ky\u00fcf\u0113\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, irregular from Greek kyphos hump; from the protuberance on the calyx tube; akin to Old English h\u016bfe hood, Greek kyptein to bend forward, stoop, Sanskrit kakubha high, eminent, Old English h\u0113ah high":""
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},
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"\u02c8k\u00fc-",
"\u02c8ky\u00fc-\u02ccpr\u012bt"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Graphene is easier to understand than complex cuprites , and the researchers believe there\u2019s a good chance that this could be the key to finally finding a superconductor that works closer to room temperature. \u2014 Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics , 7 Mar. 2018"
],
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"German Kuprit , from Late Latin cuprum":""
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"circa 1850, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-061729"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a light yellow to dark brown inert insoluble solid obtained by polymerization of acetylene (as by heating in the presence of copper or copper oxides)":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"International Scientific Vocabulary cupr- + -ene ; probably originally formed as French cupr\u00e8ne":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-062204"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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": containing copper":[]
},
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"ky\u00fc-\u02c8pri-f(\u0259-)r\u0259s",
"k\u00fc-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1784, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
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": copper sulfide sense b":[]
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-081955"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the coppery-red bark of either of two South American trees ( Remijia pedunculata and R. puridieana ) that yields quinine":[]
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"American Spanish cuprea , any of several rubiaceous plants (including Remijia purdieana ), from Late Latin, feminine of cupreus cupreous":""
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a deep blue solution of cupric hydroxide or cupric oxide in aqueous ammonia used as a solvent for cellulose (as in making cuprammonium rayon)":[]
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"type":[
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],
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"\u2014 D. B. W. Lewis"
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"first_known_use":{
"1932, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"type":[
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": relating to or resembling the cypress or family Cupressaceae":[]
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin Cupressineae , tribe including the cypress (from Cupressus + -ineae ) + English -ous":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-105050"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a rounded vault resting on a usually circular base and forming a roof or a ceiling":[],
": a small structure built on top of a roof":[],
": a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron in the foundry that has tuyeres and tapping spouts near the bottom":[],
": a raised observation post in the roof of a railroad caboose":[]
},
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"\u02c8ky\u00fc-p\u0259-l\u0259"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The glass cupola lighthouse offered a picturesque view of Plaza del Congreso and the Argentine parliament building below. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Preserving the best of the old\u2014lime-washed brick, shiplap siding, a charming cupola \u2014Blackband brought in the new. \u2014 Sally Finder Weepie, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 May 2022",
"The room was filled with a cloud of dust, created when the thin cupola of the California Hotel next door fell through the roof of the firehouse and tore through the floors below. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 15 Apr. 2022",
"The walls of the towering cupola featured scenes from the triumphs of Alexander the Great. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Visitors can climb to the top of the glass cupola lighthouse and peer down on the picturesque view of Plaza del Congreso and the Argentine parliament building. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Since Inspiration4 is not going to the space station, SpaceX removed the docking collar at the nose of the Dragon and replaced it with a transparent cupola \u2014the largest window ever built for space, and which should make for breathtaking sightseeing. \u2014 Jeffrey Kluger, Time , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Hayley Arceneaux and Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman take in the view from 365 miles up inside a transparent observation cupola attached to the nose of their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. \u2014 William Harwood, CBS News , 18 Sep. 2021",
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"Face-nailing through the top of the boards\u2014instead of blind-nailing at the tongue edge\u2014can help prevent cupping of the board in the center, keeping the floor flat and even. \u2014 Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics , 29 June 2022",
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"Her treatments mix acupuncture with cupping and massage, and Renata can help with everything from digestive disorders to migraines, anxiety to menstrual cramps with her healing touch. \u2014 Bridget Arsenault, Forbes , 26 Dec. 2021",
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"There's even less information around cupping and pregnancy. \u2014 Carolyn L. Todd, SELF , 8 Dec. 2021",
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"This is because cupping is fairly characteristic of alternative therapy that, by definition, hasn\u2019t been accepted by conventional science and medicine. \u2014 Nicholas B. Tiller, Quartz , 6 Aug. 2021"
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"The canisters will release barium, strontium and cupric -oxide, forming colored clouds that researchers can visually monitor and track from the ground, which could help them understand the movements of particles in the ionsphere and aurora. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 29 June 2017",
"The canisters will release barium, strontium and cupric -oxide, forming colored clouds that researchers can visually monitor and track from the ground, which could help them understand the movements of particles in the ionsphere and aurora. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 29 June 2017",
"The canisters will release barium, strontium and cupric -oxide, forming colored clouds that researchers can visually monitor and track from the ground, which could help them understand the movements of particles in the ionsphere and aurora. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 29 June 2017",
"The canisters will release barium, strontium and cupric -oxide, forming colored clouds that researchers can visually monitor and track from the ground, which could help them understand the movements of particles in the ionsphere and aurora. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 29 June 2017",
"The canisters will release barium, strontium and cupric -oxide, forming colored clouds that researchers can visually monitor and track from the ground, which could help them understand the movements of particles in the ionsphere and aurora. \u2014 Jason Daley, Smithsonian , 29 June 2017",
"Three chemicals interacted to form the color tracers \u2014 barium, strontium and cupric -oxide. \u2014 Angela Fritz, Washington Post , 29 June 2017",
"Three chemicals will interact to form the color tracers \u2014 barium, strontium and cupric -oxide. \u2014 Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post , 14 June 2017"
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"From beloved British tea brand Fortunum & Mason, this is the perfect cuppa to mark the Queen's big anniversary\u2014and the perfect cup to serve it in. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 22 May 2022",
"And what better way to celebrate Queen Elizabeth\u2019s platinum jubilee than with a cuppa ? \u2014 Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022",
"Infused with peppermint and Earl Grey flavoring, these chocolate wafers evoke the same flavor as your favorite cuppa . \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The scenes from Bridges\u2019s toile have been extracted and placed off-center on teacups, saucers, teapots, and bowls, with details stretching to the insides of cups and undersides of vessels, bringing a story to your morning cuppa . \u2014 Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor , 28 Feb. 2022",
"The pandemic may have thwarted your ability to people-watch in L.A. while enjoying a cuppa . \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 27 Jan. 2022",
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"Pour hot water over your favorite ground coffee, stir, wait, add cream and sugar to taste, and bingo: a great cuppa with only grounds for waste. \u2014 Andrew Bender, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021"
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"But Gallahadion, who had been second to Bimelech a week earlier in Churchill Downs\u2019 Derby Trial, excelled over a cuppy track, getting a rail-skimming ride from jockey Carroll Bierman to beat Bimelech by 1 \u00bd lengths in the Derby. \u2014 Gabe Hauari, The Courier-Journal , 4 May 2018"
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