clamp
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By the time regulators clamp down on a specific flavor of risky investing, the money has already moved elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Elfers also said it was very common for a boat engine, which does not have a closed cooling system like a car, to have a hose that pops or a hose clamp that fails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
For this study, the Yale team successfully used a dual patch clamp technique on fully intact mouse retinas.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
He has previously spoken out against measures to clamp down on illegal migration, and called the US administration's treatment of immigrants "inhuman".
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
He sat in the road at noon in the best light there would be and snipped the sutures with the scissors and put the scissors back in the kit and took out the clamp.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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In the following months he bought accessories such as awning screw-in pegs for £15.98 and wheel clamps and keys for £119.98.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The Chargers’ defense did an impressive job of putting the clamps on New England’s offense — some nifty runs by Maye notwithstanding — but the offense couldn’t turn those efforts into points.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
As the government clamps down on overseas workers, migrants spoke to AFP about working in the shadows.
From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025
Dekoda clamps to the side of a toilet bowl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
“Eeeck, ” cries the bird, turns her head, and clamps her hooked beak on my hand.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Sister Carren Herring asked as the Haitian man walked toward the field office, where he would reemerge from hours later with a GPS tracker clamped around an ankle.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
He took cues on how both clamped down better than anyone else in the red zone, where they each allowed opponents to convert touchdowns just 37% of the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Thai and British authorities have clamped down on postal deliveries, though.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
In Beijing, when officials who had once sought out Western journalists gradually clamped up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
A toddler is mid-meltdown, hands clamped over her ears, face crumpled as she cries out.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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Now, private-credit firms are clamping down on the option, known as payment in kind, or PIK.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Then I found the stage and I found my voice and instead of clamping it down, I could let it out, whatever it was, wherever it came from.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Research, however, shows that while delayed cord clamping can raise the baby’s hemoglobin levels, it does not have the same effect on vitamin K.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
To test whether these filopodia function as silent synapses, the researchers used a modified patch clamping technique.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
“Now, now,” Gary said, clamping his hand down on Jonah’s shoulder once more.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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