clog
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“We’re a small company caught in a clog of tariffs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
The natural option, a blue-green microalgae called spirulina, proved to be too costly and thick in consistency, causing factory equipment to clog during candy production.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
The waste can also clog the aquatic vegetation where the fish would feed and breed, and contaminate the water on which they depend.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Lynsey says you should avoid anything with adhesive labels as these can clog the filter.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Every touchable surface was a disease waiting to happen, every speck of dust an allergen poised to swell your nose and clog your ducts, every toothbrush bristle a bacterial playground.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Wearing wooden clogs, Naresh Paswan uses a long iron bar to push fuel through dozens of fire holes that feed the kiln.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Crocs, the maker of its iconic foam clogs, is up 39% year to date, and trades just 2% below its 52 week high.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Emma said she had even been contacted by someone from the Netherlands who would like to up-cycle a pair into clogs.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
Citing Google Search metrics, Piper Sandler’s Anna Andreeva said in a note last month that while demand for clogs is surging in the U.S.,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
This atmosphere of carbolic and gangrene clogs the lungs, it is a thick gruel, it suffocates.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
“At first, I heard it was clogged arteries. Because he did have clogged arteries. He had a problem with that,” he said.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
The pipes had clogged and the room was flooded with sewage coming up a drain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Flooding in Accra is exacerbated by a poor drainage system, including clogged gutters and the construction of illegal structures on waterways.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Swap out your air filter: A clogged filter chokes airflow, forcing your AC to guzzle more power to do the same job.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
So we ran, pushing through mobs of dazed mortals that clogged the sidewalks.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
The problem is similar to mineral scale building up inside a tea kettle or clogging a shower head over time, except seawater contains far higher concentrations of dissolved salts.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
The issue, he said, was with the vent line clogging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
"Engineers have been using the vent heaters to melt any potential ice that may be clogging the line," Nasa said, adding that they were continuing to orient the vent toward the Sun.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
“The clogging of ships on both sides of this trade choke point, however, bears further consequences,” he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Practice went good with most of it being about clogging up the middle.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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