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plug

[pluhg] / plʌg /






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He has previously compared trying to solve the housing crisis while continuing to sell social homes to "trying to fill a bath with the plug out".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

For now, plug your wired headphones into your iPhone 6S, press play on the Hamilton soundtrack, and order as many avocado toasts you want.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

Waymo says it posts people at some public charging stations to help its robotaxis plug in and it tries to keep its vehicles from bunching up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

"Every plug planted brings us one step closer to establishing a thriving meadow," said Michael de Whalley, the cabinet member for climate change and biodiversity at the authority.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

“I’m pulling the plug on the game console at nine o’clock. Then they’ll bugger off home. Thank goodness.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Members of the Nature Volunteer Network and staff from the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk have planted hundreds of native wildflower plugs in Fairstead Recreation Ground in King's Lynn.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The rough amount of new electric-vehicle charging plugs installed this year so far, on pace with last year, according to charging-industry data firm Paren.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The U.S. now has more than 80,000 public fast-charging plugs, data shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Among the more extreme measures is the removal of plugs so tourists are not tempted to take a bath.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“You could have died of pneumonia!” she insists, and plugs in a Conair dryer that blows out the lights in the living room.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

You don’t know how harshly the previous owner cycled the battery or whether they left it plugged in constantly at 100%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The AI company discovered the device, which was plugged into the back of a TV in a conference meeting room and covered up with toilet paper, on 30 September.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

After falling out of favor, shares of power stocks got plugged in on Tuesday on a big deal between Constellation Energy and Google.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

"We've shown that when tissue-resident macrophages don't have EP2 on their surfaces anymore or when that receptor is plugged up by a drug, this decline doesn't happen."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Then they’d rolled it in birch bark, pierced the bark a few times to let the fire breathe, and plugged the roll with beard-moss to keep it asleep.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Officials in Brussels say they are focused on plugging a 70-billion-euro hole in Kyiv's finances next year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

They’ve been plugging away on this policy for years, and they’re finally seeing results.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

As the city moves to ban wells and new state laws require buffer zones and plugging idle wells, “the relationship between residential communities and oil drilling operators has been reset,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

In addition to reducing exacerbations, the drug also reduced mucus plugging in lungs, AstraZeneca said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Using the same calculation but plugging in the best modern estimate of the size of the Earth’s orbit, Rømer’s own observations give the speed of light as 298,000 kilometres per second.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin


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