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fuse

[fyooz] / fjuz /


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Or someone lit the fuse a day early.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

The bizarre imagery of war feeds back into civilian normality in a British pen stand and inkwell fashioned from the nose fuse of a German shell.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Sometimes mitochondria fuse together into large interconnected networks that generate energy efficiently.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

Thomas Pearce, 19, from Old Colwyn, Conwy, has Pfeiffer Syndrome, which causes the skull to prematurely fuse in the womb, distorting the shape of the head and face.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

The color-striped candle would burn down to the fuse at six-thirty; whoever was working there would be at the other end of the room.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Since that time, chromosomes have repeatedly fused, separated, and been rearranged as new animal lineages emerged.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

But he also doesn’t expect to see a repeat of such a day, given so many factors had fused together to drive Friday’s action.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

“They had pieces of my studio fused to them. Iron, glass. … Literally anything around it that melted and could not turn to ash got stuck to them,” Bayouth said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Chip stacks fused with hybrid bonding have smaller gaps between layers than those fused via less-expensive thermal compression bonding, allowing more memory to be crammed into a smaller space.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

When Luna was five years old, her magic had doubled itself five times, but it remained inside her, fused to her bones and muscles and blood.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

He’s more positive about robotic brains becoming better at fusing multiple sources of data and turning that into action toward the end of this decade.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

Mr. Ross processes his voice with a bit of distortion to make it sound like a bullhorn, fusing his vocals with the guitars and typically keeping his singing low in the mix.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

On food, the mainland is fusing with Hong Kong.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

In response, he studied up on dance music and workshopped fusing the Miami bass of “Rich Baby Daddy” with French club tones, progressive metal bass, and modern hip-pop.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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