tube
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“We’re all stuck in this tube going somewhere, and there’s no way out,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Unconfirmed reports had suggested the woman fell ill either after breaking a test tube containing the pathogen or following a field trip to a region where plague is found naturally among wild rodents.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The Russian news outlet People of Baikal, citing unnamed sources close to the regional security services, said the dead woman may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
A chest tube was inserted to drain the fluid.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Usually I don’t talk at all in my tube.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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The 33-year-old’s rounds include sniffing for burning equipment that could indicate overheating, feeling tubes for cracks and looking for faulty lighting or broken power transformers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
After thousands of passes over the Moon, researchers have assembled maps precise enough to identify new craters, landslides, spacecraft landers, seismic faults, and possible signs of lava tubes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The frequencies from the BioCharger’s three coils and light from the tubes are said to penetrate the user’s cell walls to balance their cellular makeup, creating relaxation, clarity and, ultimately, fulfilling the user’s desired “recipe.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Fox had had parts of his spleen, pancreas, and small and large intestine removed, and yet his tubes and catheter were out and he was already walking with a walker.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
And I was never going to get to ride my bike again, no matter how many new inner tubes I could afford.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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This device comes in two forms, tubed and tubeless.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
The Faroe Islands is a self-governing archipelago within the Kingdom of Denmark, where there is also a strong affinity for meat served in tubed form.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
For trans men, testosterone and mastectomy were common, but genital surgeries remained rare, in part because phalloplasty had only minimally evolved beyond Gillies’s tubed pedicle of the 1940s.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
He was a tall Dane, holding a tubed black device that he called a smoking gun.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
“I’m convinced I hear them at the back of the house!” tubed Mrs McTougall.
From My Doggie and I by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
They’re doing it from this little antechamber through 7 feet of tubing.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
In one video, the workers unwind a line of black tubing, or conduit, from a spool the size of a small car, before feeding it into the ground.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
I clearly remember seeing the movie when I was young and being very disturbed by the scene when the government arrives and drapes the family’s house in plastic sheets and tubing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Certain lots were found to have internal tubing tears, which risk under-delivering insulin to patients.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Pieces of tubing were torn from the wall, and two water wheels and all the wind chimes were missing.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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