duct
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“She just pushed that duct tape up and shimmied right out of that chair,” Roebuck recalls.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Two super typhoons in two months, in the same year, is a historic event," said Castro, who has sealed windows at his home with duct tape and filled up extra water containers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Companies want robots that can crawl into duct spaces, identify ports and plug cables to help build the massive data centers needed for AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Amgen said in its quarterly earnings release in late April that the drug “demonstrates effectiveness and a favorable benefit-risk profile,” and said that vanishing bile duct syndrome hadn’t affected patients in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Forget all of it, because that summer was nothing but duct tape and two-by-fours.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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The actor, his voice slightly shaky, gave a moving description of grief as “unexpressed love” that quickly activated tear ducts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, which cited unidentified police sources in its reporting, there were spinning air ducts recently fitted to the shipping container, a job likely to require more than one person.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
Some cases involved vanishing bile duct syndrome, a liver condition characterized by the progressive destruction of bile ducts in the liver, the agency said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
When F. nucleatum was introduced directly into breast ducts, it caused metaplastic and hyperplastic lesions, noncancerous changes where cells either grow excessively or shift into a different type.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2026
I don’t cry, but I am in a position to realize, for the first time in many years, that the tear ducts are still there and still capable of doing their job.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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