plunger
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Simmons compares the effect to pulling back the plunger on a sealed syringe filled with water.
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2026
The plunger of the syringe attached to the needle would be pulled back and, hopefully, urine quickly accumulated.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2025
After breaking the Dalek, the Doctor hands a plunger from his Tardis which marks the "origins of the iconic Dalek arm", the Doctor Who official Twitter page said.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2023
There was a joke about a toilet plunger microphone that went by too fast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
It looked like a fire hose, except that at the end, instead of a nozzle, there was a round plunger like a big rubber ball cut in half.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
The other women on the beach are dedicated cold plungers; their WhatsApp group contains the words “polar” and “sunrise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers next to all of the beds in the coronary unit.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
As in real casinos, the most consistent winner is the house, especially when it’s got small-time plungers on the floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2021
Alex has people ask her to sign plungers when she's out and about.
From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2019
“Excuse me, I got a shipment of plungers I need to unpack.”
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
