punchbowl
Britishnoun
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a large bowl for serving punch, lemonade, etc, usually with a ladle and often having small drinking glasses hooked around the rim
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a bowl-shaped depression in the land
Example Sentences
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Then we’ll walk to the Punchbowl and I’m gonna get a terrible dark green juice that nobody wants and would make a goat go blind.
From Los Angeles Times
An unnamed senior House Republican told Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman compared the House floor to a “tinder box.”
From Salon
“We are moving full steam ahead,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Punchbowl News.
"So who won? No one," congressional media outlet Punchbowl News said in a cost-benefit analysis of the standoff.
From Barron's
He told Punchbowl News that “every day we’re getting better and better as the message sinks in more and more deeply.”
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